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091520P.pdf 12/29/2009 United States v. Donnell McCloud
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 09-1520
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis
[PUBLISHED] [Smith, Author, with Arnold and Bye, Circuit Judges]
Criminal case - criminal law. The evidence was sufficient to support
defendant's child pornography convictions; constitutional challenge to 18
U.S.C. Sec. 2251(a) rejected as disallowing a mistake-of-age defense
does not violate a defendant's First Amendment free-speech rights or his
due process rights under the Fifth Amendment; statute is a constitutional
exercise of Congress's Commerce Clause powers.