Pa. Justices Hear Arguments Over ‘Control’ of Images in Child Porn Case
Peter Hall reports on the Legal Intelligencer:
Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court justices considered whether a person looking at a book in a library is analogous to a person downloading files from the Internet and whether, in either circumstance, the person is in “control” of the material.
The comparison came during arguments in Commonwealth v. Diodoro, in which a Delaware County man is challenging his conviction of sexual abuse of children by possession and control of child pornography. The arguments were held in Harrisburg on Wednesday.
Anthony Diodoro admitted viewing at least 30 images of child pornography but argued that since he didn’t knowingly save them to his computer’s hard drive, he wasn’t in control or possession of the images . . .