A trial court properly granted a motion to suppress computer equipment containing child pornography that federal agents seized at a man’s home using a search warrant with the incorrect address and a confession he later gave to the agents, a federal appeals court has ruled.

Department of Homeland Security agents served a search warrant at defendant Yuri Bershchansky’s Brooklyn apartment in January 2011, after agents identified a computer through a peer-to-peer network that contained child pornography.

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