Williamson

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,  No. 05-30150 Plaintiff-Appellee, v.  D.C. No.

CR-02-60017-AI

LOREN SAMUEL WILLIAMSON,

OPINION

Defendant-Appellant.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Oregon Ann L. Aiken, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted January 12, 2006—Portland, Oregon

Filed March 13, 2006

Before: Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain, Andrew J. Kleinfeld, and Susan P. Graber, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge O’Scannlain COUNSEL

Larry A. Roloff, Eugene Oregon, argued the cause and was on the briefs for the appellant.

Jeffrey J. Kent, Assistant United States Attorney, Eugene, Oregon, argued the cause for the appellee. Karin J. Immergut, United States Attorney, was on the brief.

OPINION

O’SCANNLAIN, Circuit Judge:

We consider whether federal agents and local police legally seized a home computer and related equipment used in the international transmission of child pornography.

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In June, 2000, police in the European country of Croatia discovered 19 child pornographic photographs that had been posted to an…