CA11: Computer tech’s seeing CP on computer authorized warrant for computer and their copies

Defendant took his computer to a computer tech to have the data transferred to a new computer. They found child pornography, reported it to the police and copied it. The police seized the computer and got a search warrant for it. They also seized the copies, and they were made as a private search and they were covered by the search warrant anyway. United States v. Meister, 2015 U.S. App. LEXIS 13 (11th Cir. January 2, 2015).*

In an IAC claim for not challenging an arrest in a juvenile proceeding, the record is devoid of what defense counsel failed to do and how the juvenile was prejudiced under Strickland. “From this record, we do not know what defense counsel did, or did not know, before trial, and it is thus impossible for us to conclude ‘that counsel’s performance was objectively unreasonable under prevailing professional norms.’” In re Edgar C., 2014 IL App (1st) 141703, 2014 Ill. App. LEXIS 946 (December 31, 2014).