United States v. Holmquist

How courts have described this case

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• a defendant’s mistaken belief that his acts were authorized might negate specific intent under an estoppel by entrapment theory
• “ ‘by means of [in Section 542] is not synonymous with ‘because of ”
• prosecutor need not prove beyond any doubt that the evidence is what it purports to be; rather, “the standard *** for admissibility[ ] is one of reasonable likelihood”
• “the standard for authentication, and hence for admissibility, is one of reasonable likelihood”
• “A photograph’s contents, buttressed by indirect or circumstantial evidence, can form a sufficient basis for authentication even without the testimony of the photographer or some other person who was present at the time it was taken.”
• rejecting argument that proponent must establish authentication beyond reasonable doubt

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).