Romm

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,  No. 04-10648 Plaintiff-Appellee, D.C. No. v.  CR-04-00216-

STUART ROMM, PMP(PAL)

Defendant-Appellant.  OPINION

Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Nevada Philip M. Pro, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted December 5, 2005—San Francisco, California

Filed July 24, 2006

Before: Betty B. Fletcher, David R. Thompson, and Carlos T. Bea, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Bea COUNSEL

Jason F. Carr, Las Vegas, Nevada, for appellant Stuart Romm.

Nancy J. Koppe (briefed) and Daniel R. Schiess (argued), Las Vegas, Nevada, for appellee United States of America.

OPINION

BEA, Circuit Judge:

We are called upon to decide whether, absent a search war- rant or probable cause, the contents of a laptop computer may be searched at an international border and, if so, what evi- dence is sufficient to convict its owner of receiving and pos- sessing child pornography. We also address an error in the jury instructions on the mental state required for…