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173061P.pdf 08/15/2018 United States v. Oscar Steinmetz
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 17-3061
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis
[PUBLISHED] [Colloton, Author, with Arnold and Shepherd, Circuit Judges]
Criminal case - Criminal law. The district court did not err in concluding
defendant consented to a warrantless search of his residence and his
computer and storage media; scope of search did not exceed the scope of
defendant's general consent to the search; no error in admitting evidence
of molestation of the victim and the pornographic anime defendant showed
her as it established the context in which defendant took nude photos of
the victim, as well as his grooming process; in this prosecution for
production of child pornography, no error in admitting other child
pornography found on defendant's computer; no error in admitting a picture
of defendant's ex-wife wearing a bondage costume identical to the one
shown in the photos of the victim, as the picture tended to prove
defendant took the photos of the victim; the district court did not abuse
its discretion in limiting defendant's cross-examination of the victim
concerning her depression and counseling as he failed to make any offer of
proof to show how the questioning would have been relevant to the
witness's credibility or bias.