DOE v. BOLAND

No. 09-4281.

630 F.3d 491 (2011)

Jane DOE, c/o her guardian and next friend; Peter Lora; Jane Roe, c/o her guardian and next friend; Victoria Bloom, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Dean BOLAND, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided and Filed: January 19, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Jonathan E. Rosenbaum , Elyria, Ohio, for Appellants. Dean Boland , Lakewood, Ohio, for Appellee. Mark R. Freeman , United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Amicus Curiae. ON BRIEF: Jonathan E. Rosenbaum , Elyria, Ohio, for Appellants. Dean Boland , Lakewood, Ohio, for Appellee. Mark R. Freeman , Thomas M. Bondy , United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Amicus Curiae.

Before: SUTTON and GRIFFIN, Circuit Judges; BERTELSMAN, District Judge.


OPINION

SUTTON, Circuit Judge.

In the course of preparing expert testimony and exhibits for a criminal trial, Dean Boland downloaded images of children from a stock photo website, digitally "morphed" them into pornography, then used the images to help his clients resist child pornography charges in federal and state courts. Boland's actions, as it turned out, created potential problems of their own. On the criminal side, the government alleged that Boland...

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