Citations
- 776 F. Supp. 174
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MEMORANDUM
McCLURE, District Judge.
BACKGROUND
Defendant Stephen Knox has been charged in a two-count indictment with violations of 18 U.S.C. § 2252(a)(2) and (4). The indictment alleges that Knox “knowingly received through the mail visual depictions of ... minor females lasciviously displaying their genitals and pubic area” and that he “knowingly possessed three or more [of the above-mentioned] matter that had been mailed ... in interstate or foreign commerce.”
On June 5, 1991, Knox filed a bevy of pre-trial motions, with supporting brief. The government filed a timely opposing brief, requesting that all of Knox’s motions be denied without a hearing, except for his motion to suppress evidence allegedly tainted by the seizure of Knox’s mail. Subsequently, by telephone conference call, counsel for the defendant and the government advised the court that they had stipulated to a pretrial hearing by the court for the purpose of determining whether any of the visual depictions contained in three videotapes “involves a minor engaged in sexual