Legal Opinion
United States v. Davis
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided November 5, 2010No. Docket 09-3626-crPublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JON 0. NEWMAN, Circuit Judge.
The principal issue on this criminal appeal is a narrow but unsettled issue concerning the temporal aspect of the knowledge requirement of 18 U.S.C. § 2251(a), which punishes inducing a minor to engage in sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of producing any visual depiction of such conduct. The precise issue is whether the required knowledge (or reason to have such knowledge) that the visual depiction will be transmitted in interstate commerce or mailed must exist at the time that the visual depiction is produced or may be acquired thereafter. This issue…
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- United States v. GuardiaCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1998
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