Legal Opinion

United States v. Nikonova

Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

Decided February 26, 2007No. 05-31093PublishedCited by 55 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

JERRY E. SMITH, Circuit Judge:

Elizaveta Nikonova appeals the sentence she received following her plea of guilty of one count of possession of child pornography in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2252A(a)(5)(B). We affirm.

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Nikonova is a Russian citizen who immigrated to the United States in 1996. In 2004, while she was attending Louisiana State University, law enforcement officers discovered that she was using her laptop computer to acquire and store child pornography. From the computer, authorities eventually recovered seven image files and six movie files depicting child pornography.

Nikonova claims…

2Cases cited14 opinions

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3Cited by55 opinions

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