Pennsylvania rules it is OK to have Child porn in your cache
This is a case that show how backwards the US legal system is. A Pennsylvania man appealed his conviction for “knowingly possessing” child pornography, saying he didn’t know it was still kept in his Web browser’s cache.
Here is where it gets really messed up. The prosecutors successfully proved that the defendant had viewed child pornography sites and pointed to his Web browser’s cache as evidence, but Pennsylvania’s laws read that it is illegal for “any person who knowingly possesses or controls any book, magazine, pamphlet, slide, photograph, film, videotape, computer depiction or other material depicting a child under the age of 18 years engaging in a prohibited sexual act or in the simulation of such acts commits an offense.”
The word “Knowingly” was enough to get the conviction overturned. since a cache is a temporary space – not many computer users knows it even exists. So, prosecutors could not prove that the defendant actually knew the illegal images were saved to his computer.
What do you think of this legal technicality?
