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Osborne v. Ohio

Okay, so Osborne v. Ohio was a court case that happened because someone named Michael Osborne got caught having bad pictures of underage kids on his computer.

Now, in America, it’s not allowed to have these types of pictures on your computer or anywhere else. It’s against the law, and if you do have them, you can get in big trouble.

Michael Osborne got arrested for having these pictures, and he was charged with a crime. But he said that he didn’t do anything wrong because he was just looking at the pictures, and he didn’t take them or share them with anyone.

The court had to decide if just having these pictures was against the law or if Michael Osborne was right and it wasn’t a crime.

In the end, the court said that it was still a crime to have these pictures because it’s still wrong to look at them even if you didn’t take the pictures or share them with anyone else.

The court wanted to make sure that people didn’t think it was okay to have these kinds of pictures, even if they weren’t doing anything else wrong with them. So Michael Osborne was found guilty and had to face the consequences for his actions.