United States v. Ronald David Ellyson

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• concluding that circumstantial evidence that child pornography was downloaded from the internet was sufficient evidence of the interstate commerce element required under § 2252A(a)(5)(B)
• holding that erroneous “appears to be” jury instruction was not harmless error where government expert testified that he did not know whether charged images depicted actual children or were virtual creations
• deciding whether defendant’s roommate acted as Government agent when she located child pornography in shared residence and turned it over to police
• deciding whether defendant's roommate acted as Government agent when she located child pornography in shared residence and turned it over to police
• holding that the Fourth Amendment is aimed “exclusively at state action”
• noting that the governmental agent inquiry should be “guided by common law agency principles”

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