Counting Crimes When Defendants Possess Many Images of Child Pornography on Several Devices

Orin Kerr at the Volokh Conspiracy: Imagine a defendant in a child pornography case has two computers in his home. Each computer contains twenty images of child pornography. Has the defendant committed one single crime of possessing forty images? Or has he committed two crimes of possessing twenty images each?

July 25, 2012 | Comments Off  Tags: , ,

9th Circuit: Possession is lesser-included offense of receipt

U.S. v. Latham, No. 09-10099, 2010 WL 1936279 (9th Cir. May 14, 2010)