Opinion ID: 2818183
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Heading: The Fruits of the Search

Text: At 6:00 a.m. on May 12, 2010, Agent Julsrud and other HSI cyber crimes unit agents executed the search warrant at the Figueroa residence. Appellant and his parents, Fernando Figueroa and Bárbara Lugo, were present. The agents seized nine computers and eight loose hard drives, as well as thumb drives, DVDs, CDs, and videotapes. They found one of the computers, a Compaq Presario desktop computer, on a desk in the appellant's bedroom, turned on with several sessions of Mozilla Firefox internet browser open. -6- Special Agent Luis Manuel Colón of ICE, an expert3 in computer forensics, performed a forensic examination of all the computers and media devices seized from the home. He found child pornography on the Compaq Presario desktop computer seized from the appellant's bedroom, but not on any of the other devices taken from the residence. On that computer, Agent Colón discovered eighteen still images and seven videos that contained minors in lasciv[i]ous exhibition of the genitalia. LimeWire software had been installed on the computer on September 11, 2009 and updated on March 17, 2010. The only user name on the computer was the Alejandro account. All of the still images of child pornography on that computer were stored in the Alejandro\ My Documents\ LimeWire\ Saved folder. The images had not been deleted, and all were accessible to the computer user. The images were identified by file names such as 9yo Jenny nude with legs spread wide apart showing pussy -- underage lolita r% 2540Ygold Pthc ptsc ddogprn pedo young child sex preteen hussyfan kiddie kiddy porn and 6yr old yo underage child daughter childsex childfugga childlover ptsc pthc lsm lsn pedo rape torture cum ass pussy hussyfan mafiasex r@ygold dick Sandra teen model bd(1). 3 The government qualified Colón as an expert in the field of computer forensics, specifically in the service of computer evidence, without objection. -7- Similarly, all seven child pornography videos had not been deleted and were accessible to the computer user. Those videos were saved on Figueroa's computer in LimeWire folders, including C drive\ Documents and Settings\ Alejandro\ My Documents\ LimeWire\ Incomplete and C drive\ Documents and Settings\ Alejandro\ My Documents\ My Chat Logs\ LimeWire\ Incomplete\ New Folder. The videos saved in a folder with the word incomplete in its title were accessible to the user through both LimeWire and Windows.