GALVESTON — A 56th State District Court jury took less than an hour Monday to find a man guilty of possessing hundreds of images of child pornography, including pictures he appeared to have taken himself.

Michael A. Krause, 48, faces a possible prison term of two to 10 years when the jury returns today to resume deliberating punishment in the case.

A woman whose 12-year-old son was staying in Krause's mobile home in Gilchrist testified that she found compact discs containing child pornography while collecting her son's things in February 2004.

Defense attorney Bruce Mauzy told jurors someone else could have planted what he called "vile, nasty stuff" on Krause's computer. Another possibility was that a computer virus loaded the images onto Krause's home and laptop computers, the attorney said.

Griffin told jurors that many of the images had been duplicated onto discs in Krause's possession and that some of the images depicted surroundings identical to Krause's residence.

Griffin argued that the virus theory was unlikely, unless "someone broke into his house, took those pictures, put them on the Internet — and then the virus just happened to reach out and put them on his computer."

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