Opinion ID: 78597
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: Request for Additional Photographs

Text: Culver next contends that the district court abused its discretion by denying his request for additional photographs of K.W. and Sharon Brasuell. For Culver's state trial, the prosecution took two sets of photographs of K.W., one on November 12, 2003, and one on September 9, 2004. The state also took a set of photographs of Brasuell on September 9, 2004. Nonetheless, Culver asserts that he needed additional photographs of K.W. and Brasuell to present his defense because the available photographs do not adequately depict all of the relevant areas of the bodies of K.W. and Brasuell. The second segment of the 8mm videotape displays the buttocks and the backs of the thighs of a female lying on her left side. The female depicted in this portion of the tape has a series of dark spots on the backs of her thighs. Culver claims that he needed additional photos of the backs of the thighs of K.W. and Brasuell to show that the female depicted in the second segment of the tape is not K.W. But the government did not try to prove that the second segment of the tape is illegal child pornography. [7] Moreover, some of the photos taken of K.W. for the state trial clearly show that K.W. did not have dark spots on the backs of her thighs. Culver has not made any credible argument that the available photographs of K.W. and Brasuell do not adequately display the areas of the body that were visible on the female in the first segment of the tape. [8] The district court did not abuse its discretion by denying Culver's request for additional pictures.