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153211P.pdf   11/18/2016  United States  v.  Roxanne Merrell
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  15-3211
   U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota - St. Paul   
[PUBLISHED] [Murphy, Author, with Gruender and Shepherd, Circuit Judges] Criminal case - Criminal law and sentencing. The search warrant specified that law enforcement officers could search defendant and create photographs of her hands and the photography process used did not exceed the Fourth Amendment's bounds of reasonableness; any error in admitting a law enforcement officer's expert testimony that the hands shown in a child pornography image were defendant's was harmless in light of the overwhelming evidence in the case, including defendant's confession that the hands were hers; district court did not abuse its discretion in refusing to admit a videotape interview of the minor victim, as any probative value the tape may have had was substantially outweighed by its potential to confuse the issues; district court did not err in using the Eighth Circuit Model Instruction on lascivious exhibition; district court adequately considered the 35553(a) factors at sentencing and did not impose an unreasonable sentence.