It’s been a little more than a year since one of Lake Highlands’ most famous natives, Mark Salling, was arrested on charges of receiving and possessing child pornography.
Since then, his case has moved from state to federal court, due to the large volume of images and videos discovered by authorities on Salling’s phones and computers—that includes several thousands of images of children, many of them under age 10, engaged in sex acts, according to court documents obtained by magazine Radar Online, which outline what the LAPD gathered from Salling’s home.
“The government has produced discovery to the defense, including 100,000 pages of reports, photographs and forensic examination results,” the U.S. attorneys wrote, adding that they also possess “several digital devices containing images of child pornography.”
Salling — who grew up in Lake Highlands and graduated from Lake Highlands High School before becoming a star on the TV show Glee — was scheduled to have a hearing in November but requested a postponement, according to these court documents, while Salling’s lawyer is “endeavoring to locate a computer forensic expert to work through” the dense, mostly digital evidence that the defense will be allowed to review.
Snapshot of court documents
Both defense and prosecution estimate that a trial would last 3-5 days, provided the two do not arrive at a plea agreement, that is.
“The defense is also preparing evidence of mitigation that the defense anticipates presenting to the government in an effort to resolve this case without proceeding to trial,” attorney Michael Proctor wrote in the Nov. 3 filing.
Salling is due to appear back in a Los Angeles court Jan. 23 at 2 p.m.
