Legal Opinion
United States v. Gary Scott Whiting
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided March 5, 1999No. 98-2000PublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BEAM, Circuit Judge.
Gary Scott Whiting appeals his conviction in district court 1 for possession of child pornography in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2252(a)(4)(B). He asserts that pictures stored on computer disks were not proscribed by the law at the time he possessed them. We affirm.
I. BACKGROUND
The pertinent facts are not in dispute. Whiting worked as an assistant fire chief and emergency medical technician for the Piedmont fire department from 1993 until September 1996. Whiting used a computer at work and had access to the Internet from that computer. After Whiting left the fire department,…
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