U.S. v. Niggemann

Record contained sufficient evidence to support defendant’s conviction on receipt and possession of child pornography, where said pornography was found on laptop and desktop computers found in defendant’s home. While defendant argued that govt. failed to prove him guilty beyond reasonable, where both he and his wife used said computers, forensic evidence indicated that defendant was culprit, where: (1) account used to download and share pornography was registered under defendant’s name and business email address; (2) icon used to access said account program was located in same folder as icon used to access defendant’s email; and (3) other files, including defendant’s business and financial records, his cigar receipts and his golf-handicap spreadsheet, corroborated fact that instant computers were defendant’s computers. Moreover, defendant’s prior conviction on charge of sexual abuse of minor was proof of motive in instant charged offenses, where defendant had long-standing sexual interest in children.