No. 20-5560
Briand Daniel Fechner v. United States
Tags: child-pornography criminal-procedure due-process eighth-circuit evidence evidentiary-rules propensity-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct search-and-seizure sixth-circuit
Latest Conference:
2020-10-09
Question Presented (from Petition)
(1) Whether the prosecution may introduce child pornography videos at trial that were not found on the defendant's devices, but found in an outside investigation?
(2) Whether child erotica, found in the deleted space of a device, is relevant to knowledge of the child pornography found in the same deleted space of the device, as the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals held, or if it is improper propensity evidence, as the Sixth Circuit has held?
Question Presented (AI Summary)
Whether the prosecution may introduce child pornography videos at trial that were not found on the defendant's devices, but found in an outside investigation?
Docket Entries
2020-10-13
Petition DENIED.
2020-09-24
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/9/2020.
2020-09-15
Waiver of right of respondent United States of America to respond filed.
2020-08-28
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due October 5, 2020)
Attorneys
Briand Fechner
United States of America
Jeffrey B. Wall — Acting Solicitor General, Respondent