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071881P.pdf   03/05/2009  United States  v.  Jason Inman
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  07-1881
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis   
   [PUBLISHED] [Colloton, Author, with Shepherd, Circuit Judge, and
   Erickson, District Judge]
Criminal case - criminal law. Actions of defendant's co-workers in searching his computer were the acts of private citizens and were not subject to the Fourth Amendment; where a statutory element of an offense is included in the indictment but erroneously omitted from the instructions given the jury, and the evidence is insufficient to establish the unobjected-to element used instead, the conviction may be affirmed against a sufficiency of the evidence challenge where the evidence is so overwhelming or incontrovertible that there is no reasonable doubt that any rational jury would have found the government proved the statutory element; here, while the actual jurisdictional element of 18 U.S.C. Sec. 2252(a)(5)(B) was not charged to the jury, defendant's conviction must be upheld because there is no reasonable doubt that the items defendant used to produce the pornography - his hard drive and DVDs - traveled in interstate commerce as the evidence produced at trial showed the DVDs and the drive were produced outside Missouri.