Record contained sufficient evidence to support jury’s guilty verdict on charges of illegal transportation and possession of child pornography, after police traced to defendant’s computers internet postings of over 1,000 images of minors engaging in sexual intercourse with both minors and adults. While defendant argued that govt. had failed to present evidence establishing that he was individual who actually posted said images or was aware of images’ content, record showed that: (1) said postings from his computer occurred under defendant’s user name and were posted from computers located at his home, in which he was sole occupant; and (2) said images were deleted from separate locations in computers’ hard drive, where they had been stored at previous time. Ct. also rejected defendant’s claim that instant imposition of $400,000 fine was unreasonable, where said fine was within applicable guideline range, and where defendant had financial ability to pay said fine.
Federal 7th Circuit Court
Criminal Court
Reasonable Doubt