United States v. Colin Bosby

• Court: Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
• Decided: March 4, 2019
• Docket: 17-10532
• Status: Unpublished

Opinion

FILED NOT FOR PUBLICATION MAR 04 2019 UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK U.S. COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, No. 17-10532

Plaintiff-Appellee, D.C. No. 1:16-cr-00171-LJO-SKO-1 v.

COLIN LOVETTE BOSBY, AKA Colin MEMORANDUM* Bosby, AKA Colin L. Bosby, AKA Colin Lovett Bosby, AKA Colin Lovettee Bosby, AKA JSmiley, AKA Smiley,

Defendant-Appellant.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California Lawrence J. O’Neill, Chief Judge, Presiding

Submitted February 14, 2019** San Francisco, California

Before: SCHROEDER, O’SCANNLAIN, and RAWLINSON, Circuit Judges.

Colin Lovette Bosby appeals his conviction on one count of receiving or

distributing child pornography in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2252(a)(2), and two

* This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3. ** The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2). counts of possessing child pornography in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2252(a)(4)(B).

He contends that the district court erred in admitting evidence that he possessed

child pornography on two other occasions. The first occasion was in 2003, 13

years before the conduct charged in this case, and the second in October 2016, two

months after. His argument is that the first was too early and the second too late.

Evidence that Bosby possessed child pornography in 2003 and in October

2016 is evidence of “child molestation,” making it admissible in this “case on any

matter to which it is relevant,” provided its probative value outweighs its potential

to cause undue prejudice. Fed. R. Evid. 414(a); see also United States v. Sheldon,

755 F.3d 1047, 1050–51 (9th Cir. 2014).

That Bosby’s possession of child pornography in 2003 preceded the charged

conduct by 13 years does not preclude admissibility. See United States v. Rude, 88

F.3d 1538, 1550 (9th Cir. 1996) (there is no “bright line rule” precluding remote

evidence) (citation omitted); United States v. LeMay, 260 F.3d 1018, 1029 (9th Cir.

2001) (admitting uncharged acts from 11 years prior).

As to the evidence of possession in October 2016, two months after the

charged conduct, there is no rule or reason to have precluded it. Although

colloquially termed “prior bad act evidence,” Rule 414 is titled “Similar Crimes in

Child-Molestation Cases,” and provides that “the court may admit evidence that

2 the defendant committed any other child molestation.” Fed. R. Evid. 414(a). We

have never limited this rule to past conduct. See also United States v. Lloyd, 807

F.3d 1128, 1157–58 (9th Cir. 2015) (noting in the more restrictive Rule 404(b)

context that “[e]vidence of a subsequent bad act is admissible”) (citations omitted);

United States v. Sioux, 362 F.3d 1241, 1245 (9th Cir. 2004) (holding that

subsequent acts evidence is permissible under Federal Rule of Evidence 413).

AFFIRMED.