Opinion ID: 3047130
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Heading: Search of Woods’s Home and Computer

Text: During the May 12, 2009 interview, the agents asked for Woods’s consent to search his home computer. Woods agreed and signed a consent form entitled “Permissive Authorization for Search and Seizure.” That consent form authorized Agents Eversman and Ozden to search Woods’s residence “and any computers and/or electronic storage media located within [Woods’s] residence.” The consent form further authorized the NCIS “to conduct forensic reviews . . . of all electronic storage media and data files, to include text and graphical image files, contained on the electronic storage media.” After signing the consent form, Woods drove his car to his home and let the agents follow in a separate vehicle. Woods allowed Agent Ozden to access his home computer, and Ozden found images of child pornography. Agent Ozden 2 The computer Woods and his ex-wife used refers to the H-P computer Woods’s ex-wife turned over to the NCIS. This was a different computer from the one Woods had at his home at the time of the interview. 5 then asked Woods what Woods thought Ozden had found on the computer. Woods stated that he thought Agent Ozden had found child pornography. The agents told Woods that they would like to take the computer for further forensic examination. Woods agreed and signed another consent form. Agent Eversman then brought Woods’s home computer to the NCIS evidence facility, where it was shipped to the Defense Computer Forensic Lab (“DCFL”) for forensic analysis.