State v. Hansen
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The Supreme Court affirmed Defendant's conviction of one count of possession of child pornography, holding that the State's interesting protecting children from the sexual exploitation portrayed in the images at issue overwhelmingly outweighed Defendant's "expressive interests" in possessing them.
Defendant's conviction arise from his possession of computer hard drives or digital storage media containing seventeen computer files of images. The trial justice concluded that six of the images depicted minors engaging in sexually explicit conduct and, based on the six images, convicted Defendant to one count of possession of child pornography. The Supreme Court affirmed, holding that the images depicted unprotected child pornography within the meaning of R.I. Gen. Laws 11-9-1.3.
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