Legal Opinion

United States v. Morel

Court of Appeals for the First Circuit

Decided April 19, 2019No. 17-1696PPublishedCited by 30 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

LYNCH, Circuit Judge.

After the district court denied his motions to suppress evidence, David Morel, Jr., entered a conditional plea to one count of possessing child pornography in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2252 (a)(4)(B). He was sentenced to seventy months' imprisonment. Morel uploaded child pornography images to a digital album on Imgur, an image hosting website. Law enforcement learned of the images on Imgur from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), which had received a report about the images from an anonymous tipster.

On appeal, Morel challenges the district…

2Cases cited23 opinions

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