United States v. Keith Novak

LOKEN, Circuit Judge.

During a warrant search of Keith Michael Novak’s apartment in Maplewood, Minnesota, FBI agents seized more than thirty electronic devices. Agents then obtained a new search warrant for child pornography and conducted time-consuming forensic searches of a heavily encrypted Dell laptop computer and an external USB hard drive that was connected to the laptop when the devices were seized. Hundreds of images and videos of children engaged in sexually explicit activities were recovered. At a three-day trial, the government introduced forensic evidence linking Novak to the…