UNITED STATES v. ELDRED

No. 17-3367-cv.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Appellee, v. ROBERT CLAY ELDRED, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: August 5, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

BARBARA A. MASTERSON ( Gregory L. Waples , on the brief), Assistant United States Attorneys, for Christina E. Nolan , United States Attorney for the District of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, for Appellee.

BARCLAY T. JOHNSON ( David L. McColgin , on the brief), Assistant Federal Public Defenders, for Michael L. Desautels , Federal Public Defender for the District of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, for Defendant-Appellant.

Before: LIVINGSTON, CHIN, and CROTTY,


This case arises from one of the many prosecutions following the investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation ("FBI") into Playpen, a child pornography site located on the dark web. The FBI infiltrated the website and discovered the identities of many registered users by deploying a search program, the...

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