JACOBSON v UNITED STATES 504 US 540 (1992) 112 S.Ct. 1535 Keith Jacobson, a Nebraska farmer, purchase 2 magazines prior to 1984 depicting nude minor boys. The Child Protection Act was passed in 1984 which outlawed child pornography, including the type of photos in those magazines. In 1985, several government agencies, attempting to enforce the new law, began sending Mr. Jacobson brochures and other publications seemingly with the theme of child pornography. For about 2 ½ years the government sent mailings from 5 different fake organizations purporting to share the same interest in young ment. They also arranged for someone to write to Jacobson pretending to be a like-minded man. Everything being sent to Jacobson was promoting sexual liberation and challenging government censorship of such photos. Jacobson eventually ordered photos from a “company”, actually the government, and was arrested. He was tried and convicted in the state court of causing the prohibited photos to be sent through the mail. His conviction was appealed to the Eighth District Court and then the United States Supreme Court. The issue before the Supreme Court was whether the prosecution proved beyond a reasonable doubt that Jacobson was ready, willing, and able to violate the law, independent of the government’s relentless campaign urging him to do so. The U.S. Supreme Court reversed the lower court, throwing out Jacobson’s conviction and sentence. The Court ruled that the prosecution had not successfully overcome Jacobson’s claim that he was entrapped into committing the crime. Government agents may not originate a criminal plan, put it into an innocent person's mind, and then orchestrate the commission of the crime so that the Government may prosecute. The government clearly stepped over the line in this case. The only pornographic material possessed by Jacobson is what the government sent to him. He had, prior to that, not pu