Opinion ID: 529300
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Heading: I'm looking at Beach Boys Number two.

Text: 21 Q. Now you've just talked about some photos and Mr. Villard talked about mirrors. You're looking at the magazine, correct? 22 A. Correct. 23 Q. In front of you. Please explain to the jury as accurately as you can the description of the, of the depictions on those pages. 24 A. Okay. I was looking at Beach Boys number two. The magazine was opened like this. You could see there was two photographs on each page. Like a left page and a right page. Now these pictures were all of the same boy. This boy was approximately 14, 15 years old. He was fully nude. He was lying on what appeared to be a bed or a mattress. And his eyes were closed as though he was sleeping. However, looking at the two pictures on the left page, versus the two pictures on the right page, they were very, very similar. They pretty near looked the same. This is where Bob said it looks like it was done with mirrors. This was, page was a reflection of the left page. The right page, vice versa. It could work either way. However, I don't believe he was asleep because there were slightly variations between each photograph. The way the boy was lying there had been a little bit of movement each time. His knees were bent slightly upwards during this. 25 Q. Now when you said-- 26 A. And he had three quarters, you know, like a three quarters erection, semi erect. 27 Q. Once again, how much of the, each photograph did this child take up? 28 A. Okay, these were close, closein [sic] type photographs showing him from his head down to approximately knee level. That they filled the photographs on each page. They filled the entire page. 29 700 F.Supp. at 807. 30 As the district court noted, it could be inferred that the following conversation, which occurred on the next portion of the surveillance tape which was played for the jury, referred to the same set of photographs:Feltman: Would you keep them books at home, or do you consider them too risque? 31 Villard: No. I don't keep them out where you can see them at home. But I keep them on a ... (unintelligible) 32 Feltman: I mean they have hard ones and I'm surprised that ... 33 Villard: Just that one. That one, I don't keep them around the house with a hard on. 34 Feltman: What the Wonderboy one. 35 Villard: Yeah. 36 Feltman: Yeah. I mean some of the other pictures in there were ... 37 Villard: No hard he's laying in the bed, just flopped up. I mean, it's you know, it's really not hard, there's no sexual activity going on. 38 Feltman: Yeah. Still, it's, huh, I think in some places just an erection will qualify as ... 39 Villard: Yeah, I'm saying it's not erect really. 40 Feltman: Huh. 41 Villard: If he's standing up to make sure it's an erection wouldn't you. 42 Feltman: Uh huh. 43 Villard: And everything else is obviously, you know, innocent. 44 700 F.Supp. at 807. 45 The jury responded in the affirmative to the following special interrogatory: Do you find unanimously and beyond a reasonable doubt that a magazine referred to as 'Beach Boys number two' contained a visual depiction of a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct? Id. The jury also found that Villard had transported this visual depiction from California to New Jersey and back again. Therefore, the jury found Villard guilty on Counts Two and Three as to the photographs contained in Beach Boys No. Id. at 807-08. Following the verdict, Villard renewed his motion for a judgment of acquittal and also moved, in the alternative, for a new trial. The district court granted both motions, 1 and the government appeals.