Article: Feds to appeal acquittal in phone-jamming case

Government prosecutors are appealing the recent acquittal of James Tobin in the 2002 Election-Day phone-jamming case.

Tobin, a former regional director for the Republican National Committee, has been in court for years over his involvement in the 2002 effort to tie up Democratic get-out-the vote phone lines. In 2005, a federal jury convicted Tobin, of Bangor, Maine, of telephone harassment in the case. Last year, a the First Circuit Court of Appeals reversed that conviction, saying the harassment statute didn't "fit" the crime, and sent the case back to Concord for more arguments. Last month, a federal judge acquitted Tobin.

In his ruling last month, Judge Steven McAuliffe wrote that he was ...

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