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183711P.pdf 03/12/2020 United States v. Briand Fechner
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 18-3711
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa - Des Moines
[PUBLISHED] [Erickson, Author, with Melloy and Kobes, Circuit Judges]
Criminal case - Criminal law. The district court did not err in allowing
the government to introduce independently downloaded child pornography
videos which matched the hash values, name, length and thumbnail images of
files deleted from defendant's phone and SD card as the videos were
relevant to establishing that defendant knowingly downloaded child
pornography; no error in admitting summary exhibit of videos; because the
exhibit does not make assumptions or conclusions, the evidence it
summarized needed only to be admissible, not already admitted; even if the
exhibit made conclusions or assumptions, its admission was harmless;
admission of child erotica images was permissible under Rule 404(b), and
even if its admission was error, the error was harmless; no error in the
jury limiting instruction given regarding child erotica. Judge Kobes,
concurring in part and dissenting in part.