Jacobson v. united states

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, …

…law 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