Author Question: Jason Smith, a 21-year-old college student from southwest Ohio, has been downloading music and ... (Read 84 times)

Awilson837 · **on:** Aug 13, 2018

Jason Smith, a 21-year-old college student from southwest Ohio, has been downloading music and movies illegally on the Internet and selling these products to his classmates as part of an organized crime syndicate he became involved with two years previously. Given this information, answer the following questions.If found guilty of copyright infringement for a first-time offense, Mr. Smith could be given all of the following punishments except:

A) A 250,000 fine.
B) Five years in prison.
C) Forfeiture and destruction of all illegal materials.
D) Life in prison.
E) All of these punishments are possible.

Question 2

The principle that evidence may be used in a criminal trial even though the search warrant used to obtain it was technically faulty, as long as the police acted without malice when they sought the warrant is called the:

A) good faith exception.
B) fruit of the poisonous tree exception.
C) inevitable discovery.
D) compassion rule.
E) duty obligation.