United States v. Mark Steven Sovie, A/K/A Mark Beashaw

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• ruling that conduct of defendant was insufficient where defendant intended to meet victim and had obtained victim's address and unlisted telephone number
• holding that allegations of tampering with a recording device went “to the weight of the evidence rather than to its admissibility”
• ruling that conduct of defendant was insufficient where defendant intended to meet victim and had obtained victim’s address and unlisted telephone number
• noting that district court’s conclusion that defendant was a “knowing participant in his defense” was supported by the fact that the defendant “took notes, conversed with counsel, and reacted reasonably to the admission of evidence”
• affirming the denial of a psychiatric examination where the district court personally observed the defendant participate in his defense
• relying on Bailey to note that provocation does not constitute a legal defense to threat crimes committed under 18 U.S.C. § 857(c)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).