Supreme Court won't stop prosecution of man with porn on computer, found during upgrade

News Type: Event — Seeded on Mon Jun 8, 2009 8:07 PM EDT

Article Source: The Minneapolis Star Tribune

technology, crime, crime-courts, supreme-court, computers, child-pornography, child-porn, circuit-city, kenneth-sodomsky

Seeded by Erica S.

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court won't stop Pennsylvania officials from prosecuting a man whose computer was found to contain child pornography while it was at Circuit City being upgraded.

Kenneth Sodomsky wants the high court to suppress the videos found on his computer, which he had taken into a Circuit City in Wyomissing, Pa., to get a DVD burner installed into it.

While the computer was in the store, a worker looked through some of the files and found movie files with "questionable" names referring to boys of various ages. The worker then found a video of a hand reaching toward a penis and called the police.

Police seized the computer, obtained a warrant and found child pornography. Sodomsky moved to suppress the discovery, saying the Circuit City employees had no right to search his computer and show any of its contents to police.

A trial judge agreed, but a state appellate court overturned that decision,...

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Erica S.

I guess he didn't get the memo about computers and the Internet, You Leave An Electronic Trail.

And, dude, change your last name.

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ERICA S.

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Supreme Court won't stop prosecution of man with porn on computer, found during upgrade

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