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191151P.pdf 03/31/2020 United States v. Nedzad Juhic
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 19-1151
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa - Des Moines
[PUBLISHED] [Erickson, Author, with Colloton and Shepherd, Circuit Judges]
Criminal case - Criminal law. The district court did not abuse its
discretion in denying defendant's request for a court appointed expert to
examine the investigating agent's laptop as there was no reason to believe
such an examination would support defendant's theory that ransomware on
the agent's laptop planted child pornography on defendant's laptop; no
error in refusing to permit defendant to present an "innocent intent"
defense; admission of computer-generated reports on the files offered by
defendant's peer-to-peer account was harmless error in light of the other
evidence in the case; the district court did not abuse its discretion in
denying defendant's request for a jury recess after a juror informed the
court she was suffering from a migraine as she was provided items to
alleviate her symptoms and she told the court she could continue.