Court Opinion

ID: 9497825
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 17:00:47.981397+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:58:26.205746
License: Public Domain

HEANEY, Circuit Judge,
concurring.
I concur in the majority’s well-reasoned opinion. I write separately only with respect to Bach’s conviction for receiving child pornography in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2252A(a)(2). Bach contends that this conviction is constitutionally infirm because it rests on a definition of child pornography, contained in 18 U.S.C. § 2256(8)(C), which he claims violates the First Amendment. Had Bach challenged this statute on the ground that it was facially overbroad, as did the respondents in Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition, 535 U.S. 234, 243, 122 S.Ct. 1389, 152 L.Ed.2d 403 (2002), he may well have prevailed on his claim. In my view, the reasoning behind the Supreme Court’s decision in Free Speech Coalition, which held subsections (B) and (D) of § 2256(8) unconstitutionally overbroad, applies with equal force to subsection (C). The record reveals, however, that Bach only challenged the statute as it was applied to him. See United States v. Stuckey, 255 F.3d 528, 530-31 (8th Cir.2001) (noting the court of appeals generally does not consider issues or arguments that have not been raised or articulated on appeal). I agree with the majority that *635the statute survives scrutiny as applied, and therefore concur.