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032708P.pdf 04/07/2005 Jason Albert Becht v. United States
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 03-2708
District of Minnesota
[PUBLISHED] [Colloton, Author, with Lay and Benton, Circuit Judges]
Prisoner case - habeas. Because an y reasonable jury considering the
trial record would find that the pornographic materials leading to Becht's
conviction depicted actual minors, he failed to establish prejudice from
his appellate counsel's failure to challenge on direct appeal a jury
instruction which was erroneous under Free Speech Coalition v. Ashcroft,
which held the "appears to be" a depiction of a minor language in the
Child Pornography Prevention Act of 1995 was unconstitutional.