Opinion ID: 150396
Heading Depth: 4
Heading Rank: 1

Heading: Agent Sacasas’s Testimony

Text: Agent Sacasas testified that he and Special Agent Ron Crawford (“Agent Crawford”) had interviewed Phillips on the day the warrant was executed. Agent Sacasas testified that he had asked Phillips if he “use[d] any [online] method for trading child pornography, [such as] e-mail, F-serve, Kazaa, Limewire or other [p]eer-to-[p]eer programs.” According to Agent Sacasas, Phillips denied using peer-to-peer programs, but acknowledged using Yahoo Groups and/or Yahoo Messenger “to trade to get some of [the] images” and “upload[ing]” child pornography to others via Yahoo Groups. -3- Nos. 08-6099, 08-6271 United States v. Phillips Agent Sacasas testified that there was “[no] doubt in [his own] mind that [he was] asking questions and [Phillips] was answering questions about child pornography,” as opposed to adult pornography. (emphasis added). Agent Sacasas testified that, while the interview was not recorded and there were no other witnesses, both he and Agent Crawford had taken contemporaneous notes of Phillips’s responses to the questioning. Both sets of notes take the form of a series of prepared typewritten questions with handwritten answers. Question #25 states, “Do you use any . . . methods of trading child pornography, for example: email, F-serve, Kazaa, Limewire, or other Peer to Peer (P2P) programs?” Agent Sacasas’s notes immediately following that question read, “12 to 15, nude or seminude, used Yahoo Messenger.” Agent Crawford’s notes immediately following that same question state, “Traded pictures of 12 to 15-year-old images [sic] in chat rooms.” Question #30 states, “Have you ever uploaded images depicting child pornography to the [I]nternet?” Immediately following that question, Agent Crawford’s notes state, “Has posted some pics.”