United States v. John Mellies

GRIFFIN, Circuit Judge.

Defendant John Wyatt Mellies appeals his jury conviction for possession of child pornography and sentence of 96 months of imprisonment. He contends that the government, violated his due process rights by destroying or losing potentially exculpatory evidence; the district court prejudiced the jury by permitting the government to publish 114 images and admit into evidence approximately 1,600 images of child pornography, half of which were duplicates; the court abused its discretion by failing to grant a mistrial after improper testimony by a government witness; the court…