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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.