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202570P.pdf 07/23/2021 United States v. Christopher Shipton
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 20-2570
U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota
[PUBLISHED] [Arnold, Author, with Gruender and Stras, Circuit Judges]
Criminal case - Criminal case. A defendant has no objectively reasonable
expectation of privacy in files he shares over a peer-to-peer network,
including those shared anonymously with law enforcement; the district
court did not err in denying defendant's request for independent testing
of the software law enforcement used to identify him as possessing and
sharing child pornography; the evidence in the record, which the
magistrate judge found credible, is that the programs operated reliably
and did not access private areas of defendant's computer.