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161027P.pdf 03/31/2017 United States v. James Needham
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 16-1027
U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota - St. Paul
[PUBLISHED] [Smith, Author, with Loken and Colloton, Circuit Judges]
Criminal case - Criminal law. No error in admitting screenshots of a web
site as the government agent testified he was familiar with the online
content and that the exhibits were in the same format as the online
content; the screenshots did not constitute inadmissible hearsay; no error
in admission of the government's chart containing information gathered
from uploaded images; no error in rejecting defendant's proposed
instruction defining "distribute" in this prosecution for distribution of
child pornography as the district court need not define terms of ordinary
meaning and the instructions given fairly and adequately instructed the
jury on the applicable law; a juror's mere distant past acquaintance with
an attorney's relative does not qualify as the type of egregious or
extreme situation in which juror bias may be implied or presumed, and
there was no actual evidence of juror bias such as would require a new
trial.