United States v. William Joseph Wolf

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that “the photographer need not portray the victimized child as a temptress”
• noting that “lasciviousness is not a characteristic of the child photographed but of the exhibition that the photographer sets up for an audience that consists of himself or like- minded individuals.”
• requiring a child “to exhibit lust, wantonness, sexual coyness or other inappropriate precocity” “would pervert both the 36 language and the logic of the [child pornography] legislation and the case law”
• “[T]he Ninth [C]ircuit clearly stated that to violate 18 U.S.C. § 2251 the photographer need not portray the victimized child as a temptress.”
• child was asleep when photographs were taken
• par- tially nude and sleeping minor

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).