Opinion ID: 1036619
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Heading: Seizure of the Images

Text: While executing a warrant to search Stephen Shoemaker’s business, Redondo Beach police found eight images they suspected to be child pornography. The images were located on two computer servers. One server hosted the adult website Blowout.com (“Blowout”); the other hosted the adult website Beachbaby.com (“Beachbaby”). Shoemaker owned both websites. Additionally, as the systems operator for Blowout, Shoemaker managed content for the site and approved images for posting on the site. Shoemaker had one employee, the systems operator for Beachbaby. SHOEMAKER V. TAYLOR 5 In addition to Blowout and Beachbaby, Shoemaker’s business hosted five other websites that also contained adult pornography. Police seized more than 3,700 photos from the hard drives at the business. Other than the eight images that formed the basis of Shoemaker’s child pornography convictions, the seized images were adult rather than child pornography. Six of the eight images (Exhibits 3, 5, 7, 8, 9, and 12) were found on the Beachbaby website. The remaining two images (Exhibits 13 and 14) were not posted on any website but instead were found in a subdirectory of the Beachbaby server named “shoe.” Copies of these two images were also found on the Blowout server in a subdirectory named “shoe.”