United States v. Figueroa-Lugo, No. 13-1202 (1st Cir. 2015)
Annotate this CaseAfter a jury trial, Defendant was convicted of one count of knowingly possessing one or more matters which contained visual depictions of one or more minors engaging in sexually explicit conduct. The First Circuit affirmed, holding (1) the evidence presented at trial was sufficient to support Defendant’s conviction because, contrary to Defendant’s assertions, the government proved beyond a reasonable doubt that the people in the images and videos were actual children and that Defendant’s possession of any child pornography was knowing; and (2) the district court did not err in providing a willful blindness jury instruction, in declining to give Defendant’s proposed affirmative defense instruction, and in declining to give Defendant’s proffered inconsistent mental state instruction.
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