Legal Opinion
United States v. Martin Mendelsohn, United States of America v. Robert Bentsen
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided February 20, 1990No. 88-5073, 88-5076PublishedCited by 37 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CANBY, Circuit Judge:
Martin Mendelsohn and Robert Bentsen appeal convictions for conspiring to transport and aiding and abetting the interstate transportation of wagering paraphernalia, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 371, 1953. The item they transported was a computer disk containing a program to aid in bookmaking. Both defendants were sentenced to three years probation. We affirm the judgments.
BACKGROUND
Mendelsohn and Bentsen mailed a computer floppy disk from Las Vegas, Nevada to California, to one Michael Felix, an undercover policeman posing as a bookmaker. The disk was encoded with a…
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