DueProcess
1 Due Process —Sufficiency of the Evidence / Digital Possession.
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause permits
affirmance of a conviction for knowing and voluntary possession of
digital contraband where the State introduced no forensic or
attribution evidence tying petitioner to the device or files and did not
establish that the images were stored on a local device under
petitioner's dominion and control —rather than displayed from an
unidentified external attachment, network device, or remote
system —and where the State's proof of petitioner's connection to the
premises and equipment was inferential and contested. See Jackson v.
Virginia, 443 U.S. 307 (1979).
2 Due Process —Limited-Purpose Evidence Used as Substantive
Proof. Whether due process is violated when a reviewing court
sustains a conviction by treating evidence admitted only for a limited
"course of investigation" purpose as substantive proof of an element
(knowledge/voluntariness), in order to fill evidentiary gaps in the
State's proof.
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause permits affirmance of a conviction for knowing and voluntary possession of digital contraband where the State introduced no forensic or attribution evidence tying petitioner to the device or files