Those must have been some really poor prosecutors you watched, more than the defense attorneys being good.
This is not a hard case to win if the seized materials are inculpatory as well. If the ONLY incriminating evidence is what the two burglars brought in, then a case could be made that there is reasonable doubt that it was ever in the defendant’s possession.
I have more problems with the approach to possession of child porn as a status crime in itself, without proof of intent. It is too easy to be planted, even remotely.
My point exactly.