U.S. v. Seiver

Federal 7th Circuit Court
Criminal Court
Search and Seizure
Citation
Case Number: 
No. 11-3716
Decision Date: 
August 28, 2012
Federal District: 
C.D. Ill.
Holding: 
Affirmed
In prosecution on possession of child pornography charge, Dist. Ct. did not err in denying defendant's motion to suppress pictures seized from defendant's computer on ground that there was no reason to believe that pornographic pictures would have been in defendant's computer at time of search when evidence that defendant had uploaded child pornography was seven months old. While defendant could have deleted pictures within seven-month period, there was reasonable chance that forensic computer expert could have retrieved deleted pictures from computer's hard drive.