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Recommended Stories. Atlanta Black Star. Yahoo Life. The Daily Beast. Women's Health. Holmes announced that a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for two counts of Transportation of Child Pornography. Herbert Sittingcrow, age 45, was indicted on December 7, He appeared before U.

Magistrate Judge Veronica L. Duffy on December 9, , and pled not guilty to the Indictment. Restitution may also be ordered. The Indictment alleges that between March 19, , and October 21, , Sittingcrow knowingly transported child pornography using the Internet. During the trial, his defence team said that he was simply posing for a photo and was not staging a protest or a public assembly outside the former State Courts building that day.

One of his lawyers, Mr Eugene Thuraisingam, said: "It does not constitute an offence under the Public Order Act because it's not an assembly. It's a photo-taking session, to put things simply. During the lawyer's cross-examination, the police officers testified that Wham's actions on Dec 13, , did not pose a threat to public order and that he did not disturb anyone or do anything to call attention to himself. The witnesses also agreed that having a photo taken outside the court building is not, in itself, an offence.

However, Wham's holding of the sign would still constitute an offence even if no photo had been taken, said Assistant Superintendent of Police ASP Pek Shun Fu, who was the second investigating officer on the case. The officer said: "While he did not specifically draw anyone's attention, I still note that there were passers-by walking around, and there is a possibility that they could have seen what happened.

I could not rule out that possibility. Former Florida State University star and recent Seahawks wide receiver Tamorrion Terry was cut by Seattle and then indicted for felony murder the next day in a gang-related killing dating back to It took investigators three years to determine that Terry and nine other suspects had been part of the firefight. Terry had gone undrafted but was signed on May During his brief tenure with the team, the coaching staff was impressed and Terry was expected to have a shot at a roster spot.

According to multiple sources, Terry was not suspected by NFL teams to have been a person of interest in this particular case.