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U.S. v. MORRIS

No. 774, Docket 90-1336.

928 F.2d 504 (1991)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Robert Tappan MORRIS, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided March 7, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas A. Guidoboni, Washington, D.C., for defendant-appellant.

Ellen R. Meltzer, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C. (Frederick J. Scullin, Jr., U.S. Atty., Syracuse, N.Y., Mark D. Rasch, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., on the brief), for appellee.

Before NEWMAN and WINTER, Circuit Judges, and DALY, District Judge.

JON O. NEWMAN, Circuit Judge:

This appeal presents two narrow issues of statutory construction concerning a provision Congress recently adopted to strengthen protection against computer crimes. Section 2(d) of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986, 18 U.S.C. § 1030(a)(5)(A) (1988), punishes anyone who intentionally accesses without authorization a category of computers known as "[f]ederal interest computers" and damages or prevents authorized use of information...

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