WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from a man who was convicted of child pornography charges based on the nude pictures he kept from his mid-1970s affair with his teenage sister-in-law.
Gary Peel wanted the court to throw out the conviction because no federal child pornography law existed when he took the shots of his sister-in-law in 1974. She was 16 at the time. The justices turned down his appeal Tuesday without comment.
Authorities learned of the pictures when Peel, after filing for bankruptcy in 2005, tried to blackmail his ex-wife into reopening the financial arrangement they made as part of their divorce. She went to the police.
Peel once was a successful lawyer in Illinois.
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