United States v. Pothier

KAYATTA, Circuit Judge.

Police learned that someone using an IP address 1 registered to William Pothier at an apartment in Exeter, New Hampshire, downloaded child pornography from a peer-to-peer file-sharing network. They also learned that two people in addition to Pothier received mail at that residence. While executing a search warrant, police found in the living room a laptop computer that was not password-protected. Pothier admitted that he owned the laptop, which contained a handful of documents and innocuous chat histories in his name. It also contained child pornography, i.e. , videos…