Man facing child porn charges seeks to suppress evidence

OSSIPEE — A former Jackson man whom Carroll County grand jury indicted last year on child pornography charges is asking a judge to declare that the results of a search warrant should be suppressed because an apparent typographical error in the search warrant application.On Oct. 6, a Superior Court grand jury indicted Chris Devries, 38, of Jackson on 20 counts of child abuse images, allegedly of female children performing sex acts with a man or men, or another child, plus drug and falsifying evidence charges.According to CarrolL County Superior Court’s case summary, Devries’ case is scheduled to have jury selection on Sept. 20. On June 21, DeVries organized a North Conway protest he called “Skate Away the Hate,” which involved people riding bicycles and skateboards down White Mountain Highway from Schouler Park to Depot Road and back. At one point he called for divesting funds from police and prison systems.On March 10, defense attorneys Mark Sisti and Wade Harwood of Sisti Law of Chichester filed a motion to suppress.The motion says that last summer police obtained a search warrant based on information that Snapchat, a multimedia messaging app, provided to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.Snapchat said an…
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