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183709P.pdf 08/28/2020 United States v. Beau Croghan
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 18-3709
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa - Council Bluffs
[PUBLISHED] [Smith, Author, with Melloy and Shepherd, Circuit Judges]
Criminal case - Criminal law and sentencing. For the court's prior opinion
on the government's appeal of a suppression order, see U.S. v. Horton, 863
F.3d. 1041 (8th Cir. 2017). The district court did not plainly err in
admitting images of a female minor relative defendant had uploaded to
PrimeJailBait.com, as the evidence was admissible under Rule 404(b) to
establish motive, rebut claims of accident or mistake concerning the
charged child pornography conduct and show identity as they were uploaded
using the same user ID defendant used in accessing Playpen, a darknet
server; the court did not plainly err in not striking an FBI agent's
mention of defendant's children as it went to explain steps taken in the
investigation; the court did not plainly err in permitting the agent to
explain why the FBI requested a no-knock warrant in the case; evidence was
sufficient to support the jury's verdict convicting defendant of knowing
receipt of child pornography; defendant's below-guidelines sentence was
not substantively unreasonable.