A Connecticut family, suffering the loss of their father, compiled an assortment of family photos to use in a slide show at the funeral home. After the photos were copied to a thumb drive, a family member took the drive to the funeral home. Once there, an employee opened the drive and found child pornography. Someone had moved the images to the trash on a Mac, but those images were easily accessible in Windows.
The funeral home reported the images to law enforcement and turned over the drive. During the investigation, 153 images and videos of child pornography
were found on the a family member's computer.
Appealing his conviction for possession of child pornography, Rivera argued that the thumb drive was illegally seized, but the court quickly struck that argument down under the private search exception in
Jacobsen.
The case is
State v. Rivera, 2012 Conn. Super. LEXIS 732 (2012). Rivera is an accomplished
comic book illustrator.
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