College Professor Pleads Not Guilty To Watching Child Porn On Plane
Nov. 27 2011, Published 11:00 a.m. ET
By Breaking Celebrity News Staff
A University of Utah science professor pleaded not guilty in a Boston courtroom Monday to accusations he watched child [expletive] on his laptop during a cross-country Delta flight.
As we previously reported, Dr. Grant D. Smith was arrested on a charge of child pornography possession Saturday by authorities in Massachusetts immediately after his Utah-to-Boston flight landed at Logan Airport. He was ordered held in lieu of $75,000 cash bail Monday.
Prosecutor Erik Bennett said that a fellow passenger in first class on Smith’s flight number 270 saw him watching the movies and told flight attendants. They subsequently alerted officials and told Smith to shut his university-issued Mac Book.
After he was told to shut the computer, Smith tried to delete the pictures -- reportedly of girls between 6 and 10 years old -- according to Bennett. When his laptop was confiscated after the flight touched dow