Hill

I. Background

As the district court explained:

A computer technician was repairing defendant’s computer when she discovered what she believed to 9378 UNITED STATES v. HILL be child pornography. She called Long Beach police, and the detective who took the call obtained a search warrant from a judge of the Long Beach Superior Court. The warrant authorized a search of the com- puter repair store and seizure of the computer, any work orders relating to the computer, “all storage media belonging to either the computer or the indi- vidual identifying himself as defendant at the loca- tion,” and “all sexually explicit images depicting minors contained in the storage media.” By the time the detective arrived at the store to execute the war- rant, defendant had picked up his computer. . . . [T]he detective [submitted an affidavit, which included the computer technician’s sworn statement describing the images. On the basis of this affidavit, the officer obtained] a second warrant, this one directed at defendant’s home, authorizing seizure of the same items.

The affidavit on which the warrants were based described “two images of child pornography”:

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