United States v. Ross

TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge.

Following a two-day jury trial in the United States District Court for the District of Maine, defendant-appellant Kevin Ross was found guilty of one count of possession of child pornography under 18 U.S.C. § 2252A(a)(5)(B). Before trial, Ross sought to exclude from evidence six images and three videos of child pornography found on his computers and hard drive on the basis that the inflammatory nature of these materials risked unfairly prejudicing the jury against him under Federal Rule of Evidence 403. He contended that, because he was willing to stipulate that his…