Federal 7th Circuit Court
Criminal Court
Reasonable Doubt
Record contained sufficient evidence to support defendant’s conviction on child pornography charges, even though defendant argued that evidence was insufficient to establish his guilt, because jury heard no expert testimony regarding age of girls depicted in images sent from defendant’s cell phone. Jurors were capable drawing on their own perceptions to determine subjects’ age, and Dist. Ct. examined each image and found that based on physical appearance alone, jury was able to determine that instant undeveloped slender girls were not as old as eighteen. Moreover, instant girls’ status as minors found support in context of defendant’s sexual preference.