Walstrom v. State

OPINION

THE FACTS

In June 1986, Janine Walstrom asked her friend Francis Grey to be a witness while they examined the contents of a metal footlocker located in her husband’s pickup truck. When they opened the locker, they found child pornography. Based on the affidavit of Ms. Grey, detective Susan Coffey of the Carson City Sheriff’s Office executed a search warrant and seized the materials in the footlocker.

Detective Coffey found a roll of undeveloped film in the bottom of the footlocker. When developed, the slides showed appellant Walstrom committing lewd acts with a young girl. The pictures…