SALT LAKE CITY -- Investigators say they seized computers and other electronics from a University of Utah professor accused of viewing child pornography on a flight because they feared he'd have someone else destroy evidence.
Court filings Thursday in Salt Lake City's 3rd District Court list items seized in the Nov. 28 search of 47-year-old Grant D. Smith's home.
Smith was arrested Nov. 26 after fellow first-class passengers on a Delta flight from Salt Lake City to Boston's Logan International Airport said they saw him viewing child pornography on his laptop computer.
Smith has pleaded not guilty to child pornography possession.
Smith is a professor of materials science and engineering at the University of Utah. The university has placed him on administrative leave.
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