Ga. Court Reverses Child Porn on Computer Conviction

Judges of the Georgia Court of Appeals said they must "reluctantly" issue an opinion that may make it more difficult for the state to prosecute people who look at child pornography. In what it said was an issue of first impression in Georgia, the panel reversed the conviction of a man on 106 counts of sexual exploitation of children because, the judges found, prosecutors didn't prove that the man knew he had pornographic images stored in his computer hard drive.

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