In a precedential decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has ruled that because a warrant for a man suspected of child molestation—which included an assumption that he likely possessed child pornography—was executed in good faith, the nearly 70,000 illegal images obtained by a police search should be admissible as evidence.

The three-judge panel’s ruling reverses a district court’s decision to suppress the thousands of child pornography images in the prosecution against Robert Dean Caesar, who was arrested on charges related to sexually abusing two boys in his Oxford home.

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