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jacobson v. United states supreme court
Title: jacobson v. United states supreme court
Category: Law & Government / Government & Politics
Details: Words: 345 | Pages: 1.5 (approximately 235 words/page)
jacobson v. United states supreme court
Jacobson v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
1992. 503 U.S. 540, 112 S.Ct. 1535.
FACTS= On September 24, 1987, Keith Jacobson was indicted on charges of violating a provision of the Child Protection Act of 1984, which criminalizes the knowing receipt through mail of a “visual depiction [that] involves the use of minors engaging in sexually explicit conduct.” On Feb 1984 Jacobson ordered two magazines in the mail of young boys. The magazines entitled Bare Boys 1 and Bare Boys 2, …showed first 75 words of 345 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 345 total…to do so. He was found guilty because they do not have to show that he intended to break the law only that he received illegal material of minors.
JUDGMENT= The jury upheld the decision. Jacobson was again found guilty.
REASONING= “The statue violated here,... does not require proof of specific intent to break the law; it requires only that knowing of receipt of visual depictions produced by minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct
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