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Hmmm, percentage of what was and was not porn was not given..but by the fact that they introduced 60,000+ into evidence...I suppose defense could have told them it wanted a correct or exact number... we know not all of them are considered porn cuz there were pics of his girlfriends daughter. It sounds like he was quite organized, labeling them teen, Bj's, big red, farm one... WOO HOO wonder what was in those.

Here's his general answer.. This discusses the many thousand they found, with less than 100 of questionable..and everyone refers to it as those that must be under 18.

Q HOW MANY IMAGES WERE YOU ABLE TO RETRIEVE?
9 A FROM AN OVERALL, THERE WERE THOUSANDS OF
10 PICTURES. BUT FROM A QUESTIONABLE STANDPOINT, WE
11 RETRIEVED APPROXIMATELY, I WOULD SAY, LESS THAN A
12 HUNDRED.

For those of you who are not familiar with this stuff, I think I can provide some help. These are things that the media is not willing to say.

These porn images are scanned photos taken from movies and magazines that are advertized in men's magazines.

They have been available for 10 or 20 years as magazines or films or movies.

Some internet site has these files on the website that they scanned and placed in graphic files.

You download them and they are put in folders by TYPE.

Even if the website doesn't put them into folders by type (it should, most things on websites are grouped into folders when there are that many images), there are other explanations for their being organized into folders named as per the testimony.

(1) the adolescent did it. Downloaded the files, then copied/zipped them to the zipdisk
(2)The adolescent got the zipdisk as a copy from someone else that had downloaded it.

#2 is the most likely, as these files were on a ZIPDISK. This indicates they were compressed. They have to be uncompressed to be viewed.

64,000 plus files is a lot of images files.

Another explanation is that there are websites where you can choose to download a library of images and you will get porn you did not ask for. And another is there are some websites you can log on to and there is a provision to have them download everything they get to you. Again, you don't know what you will get. These last explanations are not the likely versions of what happened as you would have to copy/zip the images files to the zipdisk.

The police are trying to establish a link in the minds of the jury, and the public, that because Westerfield was a neat freak, that is proof the 100 or so images on the ZIPDISK were for his prurient pleasures, because he was compelled (because of being a neat freak) into putting them into folders, and giving the folders names that applied to the type of images to be found in them.

BOY, IS THAT ONE LONG REACH!, but the public swallowed it whole.