United States v. Dwight G. Townsend

How courts have described this case

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• holding that, to find an ECPA violation, the “defendant’s act must have been the product of defendant’s conscious objective rather than the product of a mistake or an accident”
• stating that the terms \deliberately\ and \intentionally\ are synonyms of the more common mens rea term \purposefully\
• finding no abuse of discretion where the district court excluded evidence that defendant claimed was necessary to establish motive because there was no connection between the evidence and the criminal conduct
• to find intentional interception of telephone conversations of third parties without their knowledge or consent, jury must find that the act was deliberate and purposeful, rather than product of mistake or accident
• to find intentional interception of telephone conversations of third parties without their knowledge or consent, jury must find that the act was deliberate and purposeful, rather than product of mistake or accident

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