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Facts

• In 2012, the defendant's girlfriend found two CDs labeled with suggestive titles indicating child pornography in their shared home. Upon viewing the CDs, she discovered images of children engaged in sexual acts and reported this to the police. A subsequent search warrant led to the discovery of a safe containing several more CDs with over 100,000 images, more than one thousand of which were classified as child pornography. The defendant was arrested and charged with multiple counts of possession and manufacturing of child pornography (paras 2-3).

Procedural History

• [Not applicable or not found]

Parties' Submissions

• Appellant (Defendant): Argued that his right to a speedy trial was violated, the Legislature did not intend for the statute to apply to creating CD compilations of prohibited material for personal use, there was insufficient evidence to convict him of manufacturing child pornography, and his convictions for both possessing and manufacturing child pornography violate double jeopardy (para 1).
• Appellee (State): Contended that the defendant's right to a speedy trial was not violated, the act of copying child pornography to CDs constitutes manufacturing under the law, sufficient evidence supported the defendant's convictions, and there was no double jeopardy violation in convicting the defendant for both manufacturing and possessing child pornography (paras 43, 47, 48, 53).

Legal Issues

• Whether the defendant's right to a speedy trial was violated.
• Whether the Legislature intended for the statute to apply to the act of creating CD compilations of prohibited material for personal use.
• Whether there was sufficient evidence to convict the defendant of manufacturing child pornography.
• Whether the defendant's convictions for both possessing and manufacturing child pornography violate double jeopardy.

Disposition

• The Court of Appeals affirmed the district court's decision, finding against the defendant on all points raised (para 1).

Reasons

• The Court of Appeals, with Judge Daniel J. Gallegos writing and Judges Linda M. Vanzi and Emil J. Keihne concurring, held that:
  The three-year delay between the defendant's arrest and trial was not a violation of his right to a speedy trial, considering the complexity of the case and the balance of reasons for the delay (paras 4-33).
  The Legislature's definition of "manufacturing" under the Sexual Exploitation of Children Act includes the act of copying child pornography to CDs for personal use, as evidenced by the statutory language and prior case law (paras 43-47).
  Sufficient evidence supported the defendant's convictions for manufacturing child pornography, given the defendant's admission to searching for child pornography, the similarity of handwriting on the CD labels to the defendant's, and the storage of the CDs in a safe owned by the defendant (paras 48-52).
  The convictions for both manufacturing and possessing child pornography did not violate double jeopardy principles, as the acts of manufacturing and possessing were not unitary, given the passage of time and distinct factual bases for each charge (paras 53-55).