Legal Opinion
United States v. Williams
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided October 27, 2011No. 10-10550PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
THOMAS, Circuit Judge:
This appeal presents the question of whether a defendant can be convicted under 18 U.S.C. § 2251(d)(1)(A) if he does not produce the child pornography which he advertises or offers to distribute. We conclude that he can, and we affirm the judgment of the district court.
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Williams psed peer-to-peer file software to post and share more than 5,000 images of prepubescent children engaged in sexually explicit conduct. FBI agents repeatedly accessed these photos, eventually identified Williams as the owner of the files, and executed a search warrant of Williams’s mobile…
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