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161911P.pdf 08/09/2017 United States v. Keith Novak
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 16-1911
U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota - St. Paul
[PUBLISHED] [Loken, Author, with Colloton and Kelly, Circuit Judges]
Criminal case - Criminal law and sentencing. In prosecution for possession
of child pornography, it was not error to admit evidence that deviant
adult pornography was found on defendant's computer as the evidence helped
establish knowing possession of child pornography in common encrypted
folders and was highly relevant to disproving defendant's defense that the
downloads were done by some other party; no error in giving a willful
blindness instruction; below-guidelines-range sentence was not
substantively unreasonable. Judge Kelly, dissenting.