United States v. Burdulis, No. 12-1896 (1st Cir. 2014)
Annotate this CaseDefendant was prosecuted in federal court for possession of child pornography, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 2252(a)(4)(B), after police officers took several digital devices from his home, including a thumb drive that contained child pornography. To establish that the pornography was “produced using materials which have been…shipping or transported” in interstate commerce, the prosecution relied on an inscription on the thumb drive stating, “Made in China.” The First Circuit affirmed Defendant’s conviction, holding (1) copying pornography onto a thumb drive is “producing” pornography under the statute, and the Court’s interpretation of the law did not put it beyond Congress’s authority to regulate interstate commerce; (2) the district court did not err by admitting as evidence the drive’s inscription over Defendant’s hearsay objection; and (3) the warrant to search Defendant’s home and the devices inside it was constitutional.
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