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021179P.pdf   07/30/2003  USA  v.  Alois Wolk
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  02-1179
   Eastern District of Missouri   
Criminal case - criminal law. Claim that indictment was constitutionally defective under Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition, 534 U.S. 234 (2002) was not raised in the district court and would be reviewed under the plain error doctrine; while the indictment was defective under Ashcroft, defendant could not establish that the error affected substantial rights, as the evidence showed the children depicted in the pornography were real, there was no claim their images were virtual and defendant stipulated that the children were real; defendant's statements were admissible as he was not in custody at the time he made them and was not entitled to his Miranda warnings before he made the statements; Batson challenge rejected; district court did not err in imposing enhancement for possession of sadistic materials as the images depicted sadistic sexual behavior.