Satya Mahapatra v. American Builders Contractors Supply Co. Inc

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing “no authority finding that computer disks and hard drives are closed containers somehow separate from the computers themselves”
• finding no error when an agent served as both a fact and expert witness, especially because the jury was informed of the agent’s dual roles and the agent was subject to cross-examination
• combination of identifying information given by user in the chat and corroborating evidence found in defendant’s home near his computer sufficient to authenticate chat log
• authentication established when chat room printout showed individual using name “Stavron” gave officer defendant’s name and address and subsequent e-mail exchanges indicated e- mail address belonged to defendant
• affidavit indicated that undercover agent encountered 3 defendant “in an Internet chat room designated as ‘# sexpicshare # % % kidssexpics’”
• affidavit indicated that undercover agent encountered defendant “in an Internet chat room designated as ‘# sexpicshare # % % kidssexpics’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).