UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT

August Term 2024

(Argued: December 1, 2023 Decided: September 23, 2024)

Nos. 22-599-cr (L), 22-602-cr (Con)

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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

Appellee,

-v.-

ERIC TOMPKINS,

Defendant-Appellant.

–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Before: LIVINGSTON, Chief Judge, MENASHI, and KAHN, Circuit Judges.

Defendant-Appellant Eric Tompkins appeals from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York (Thomas J. McAvoy, District Judge), convicting him, upon entry of a conditional plea preserving a Fourth Amendment issue, of failing to register as a sex offender in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2250(a), and of possessing child pornography in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§