But in March 2010, a federal judge in Michigan ruled that Thomas Kirschner, facing charges of
receiving child pornography, would not have to give up his password.
He was arrested for a number of charges including money laundering, marriage fraud and
receiving child pornography.
Not exact matches
He had already
received a sentence of up to 175 years in a different jurisdiction, and was sentenced to a 60 - year federal term for
child pornography convictions.
The person who
receives it on the other end is in possession of
child pornography.
Risk
receiving criminal charges for
child pornography.
In a nutshell, CIPA requires that schools and libraries
receiving E-Rate funding «block or filter Internet access to pictures that are: (a) obscene; (b)
child pornography; or (c) harmful to minors (for computers that are accessed by minors).»
Whether a person is «in possession» of a thing is an important legal issue in many different kinds of criminal law cases, including criminal drug possession cases, criminal gun possession cases, certain sex crime cases such as
child pornography and computer crime - related cases, possession of stolen property or
receiving stolen property cases.
He pleads the «Trojan horse defence,» i.e., he innocently
received into his computer a good program or text that contained a hidden program containing or leading to the
child pornography being on his hard drive.