Federal 7th Circuit Court
Criminal Court
Evidence
In prosecution on charge of possession of child pornography, Dist. Ct. erred in allowing govt. to question defendant with respect to allegations that defendant had touched his 6-year-old granddaughter inappropriately and watched his teenage stepdaughter take showers since Dist. Ct. had failed to conduct requisite Rule 403 balancing test to determine whether admission of said evidence was unduly prejudicial. However, error was harmless given defendant's admission that his computer contained approximately 20 child pornography videos and that he had deleted approximately 100 similar files.