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There was plenty of room in Courtroom No. 4 on Thursday, but still the folks in the front row were moving around and talking about where to sit as if a sold-out show was about to start — and Christopher Jones wanted the aisle seat.

His mother, Bonnie, told him to take a seat in between her and his father, longtime Carleton Place lawyer Alan Jones, but their 42-year-old son refused and said he wanted the aisle seat.

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He got his way, but when Ontario Court Justice Julie Bourgeois walked in the room, nothing else would go his way.

After hearing what she called strong and reliable evidence at trial in July, Bourgeois on Thursday found Christopher Jones guilty of secretly filming a seven-year-old girl at the Carlingwood Mall and possession of child pornography.

Jones sat still when he heard the verdict.

The main issues at trial were the integrity of cellphone evidence seized by Ottawa police, the identity of its user and whether the images met the threshold of child pornography.