About

Welcome to the CP Case Digest. My name is Frederick Lane, and I am an attorney, author, and expert witness in the field of computer forensics. I have been working with computers — particularly personal computers — for thirty years, and have worked as a computer forensics expert since 1999. During that time, I have assisted attorneys and their clients across the country in the investigation and defense of a wide range of cases, including embezzlement, domestic relations, obscenity, child pornography, and first degree murder. I have been retained as a consulting expert in nearly 100 child pornography cases, and was recently accepted as an expert by the Defense Office of Hearings and Appeals (a branch of the DOD Defense Legal Services Agency) in the methodology and technology used to create, distribute, and acquire child pornography.

If you or your client need computer forensic services, please contact me at fslane3@gmail.com or 802-318-4604.

In addition to my consulting work, I have been invited to lecture numerous times over the past twenty years to a variety of attorney groups and public defender organizations (both federal and state) on topics ranging from peer-to-peer networks to the basics of computer forensics. Additional information about my work can be found on my main computer forensics Web site, ComputerForensicsDigest.com.

This blog is an ongoing effort to digest significant judicial opinions regarding various issues that arise in child pornography prosecutions. My primary focus is on federal cases, although some state cases will be digested as well. In addition, this blog will give preference to decisions involving investigatory and evidentiary issues. The opinions dealing with sentencing issues will only be digested as time permits.