Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals, 2014

Kepner v. State

Kepner v. State
Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals · Decided May 2, 2014 · Burke, Joiner, Kellum, Welch, Windom
155 So. 3d 330; 2014 WL 1744105; 2014 Ala. Crim. App. LEXIS 24 (Southern Reporter, Third Series)

Kepner v. State

Opinion of the Court

WINDOM, Presiding Judge.

AFFIRMED BY UNPUBLISHED MEMORANDUM.

WELCH and BURKE, JJ., concur. KELLUM, J., concurs in the result. JOINER, J., concurs in part; dissents in part, with opinion.

Concurring in Part

JOINER, Judge,

concurring in part and dissenting in part.

Except as to James Samuel Norton Kepner’s conviction for unlawful possession of child pornography, see § 13A-12-192, Ala.Code 1975, I concur with the Court’s decision to affirm, by unpublished memorandum, Kepner’s convictions. Kep-ner’s conviction for unlawful possession of child pornography was based, in part, on an erroneously admitted report of forensic testing and images retrieved from Kep-ner’s cellular telephone as a result of that forensic testing. I disagree with the Court’s conclusion that this error was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt; therefore, I respectfully dissent as to the affirmance of that conviction.

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