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Article: Tobin appeals conviction in election phone-jamming case
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- Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME
- Article date:
- September 9, 2006
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BOSTON - Defense attorneys filed an appeal Friday in U.S. 1st
District Court of James Tobin's conviction in a scheme to jam New
Hampshire Democrats' get-out-the-vote phone lines four years ago.
Attorneys for Tobin, 45, of Bangor argued in their 59-page brief
that the telephone harassment statute should not have been used to
prosecute him and three others. The attorneys also argued that the
way the statute was used to prosecute Tobin violated the U.S.
Constitution.
Tobin, who remains free pending the outcome of the appeal, was
sentenced in April in U.S. District Court in Concord, N.H., to 10
months in federal prison. He also was fined $10,000 after being
convicted in December after an ...