On Apr 09, 1996 01:47:39, '"Robert A. Rosenberg" <hal9001@panix.com>' wrote:
At 9:01 4/8/96, Mike Duvos wrote:
I'd be interested to know if the courts have ever had a case in which a person has been declared to have been in "possession" of illegal material merely by virtue of its momentary presence in their cache, screen buffer, or usenet spool.
If you want a real world analogy, there are cases where overeager USPS Inspectors who want to "get" someone have sent them porno as a Return Receipt Requested Item and then raided before the person had had a chance to open the package. That is possession under the Law.
I think this is more "conspiracy" not "possession" under the law. Perhaps an attorney on the list could comment. But I am interested to read more about such "cases." Could R.A. Rosenberg post the case cites? --tallpaul