DOE v. BOLAND

No. 11-4237.

698 F.3d 877 (2012)

Jane DOE and Jane Roe, c/o their guardians and next friends, Plaintiffs-Appellees, United States of America, Interested Party-Intervenor, v. Dean BOLAND, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided and Filed: November 9, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Dean Boland , Boland Legal, LLC, Lakewood, Ohio, for Appellant. Jonathan E. Rosenbaum , Elyria, Ohio, for Appellees. Anne Murphy , United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Intervenor. ON BRIEF: Dean Boland , Boland Legal, LLC, Lakewood, Ohio, for Appellant. Jonathan E. Rosenbaum , Elyria, Ohio, for Appellees. Anne Murphy , Thomas M. Bondy , United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Intervenor.

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


OPINION

SUTTON, Circuit Judge.

To help defendants resist child-pornography charges, technology expert and lawyer Dean Boland downloaded images of children from a stock photography website and digitally imposed the children's faces onto the bodies of adults performing sex acts. Boland's aim was to show that the defendants may not have known they were viewing child pornography. When the parents of the children involved found out about the images, they sued...

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