District court’s conviction of defendant for possessing child pornography, supported by evidence found while executing a warrant to search defendant’s computers and hard drives for unrelated crime of voyeurism, is affirmed as, although the officer exceeded the scope of the warrant by opening certain files, those files are severable from the remaining files seized.  

Read US v. Mann, No. 08-3041

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Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Indiana, Hammond Division

Decided January 20, 2010

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Before: Rovner, Evans, and Tinder, Circuit Judges

Opinion by Circuit Judge  Rovner

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