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US v Moran.docx

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, V. Dennis MORAN, Defendant. United States District Court, D. Nebraska. February 15, 1991. 2 [...] 345 RICHARD G. KOPF, United States Magistrate Judge. 6 The parties have consented to try this misdemeanor case before me. Trial was held on January 15, 1991, and briefs were received on January 23, 1991. I now find that the defendant is not guilty of the alleged willful infringement of a copyrighted video cassette in violation of 17 U.S.C. $ 506(a). 7 I. FACTS 8 Dennis Moran (Moran), the defendant, is a full-time Omaha, Nebraska, police officer and the owner of a "mom-and-pop" movie rental business which rents video cassettes of copyrighted motion pictures to the public. On April 14, 1989, agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) executed a court-ordered search warrant on the premises of Moran's business. The FBI seized various video