ALONSO VALENCIA v. THE STATE OF FLORIDA

How courts have described this case

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• holding that, as to a statute criminalizing the use of certain routes when transporting explosives, “no more than a reasonable degree of certainty [as to the prohibited conduct] can be demanded”
• concluding that it is not “unfair to require that one who deliberately goes perilously close to an area of proscribed conduct shall take the risk that he may cross the line”
• stating that requirement of specific intent does much to destroy any force in argument that statute is vague
• noting that \one who deliberately goes perilously close to an area of proscribed conduct shall take the risk that he may cross the line\
• stating that “familiar rule” on review of district court’s grant of dismissal motion
• indicating that a “knowingly” mens rea requirement “does much to destroy any force in the argument” that enforcement of the regulation in question would violate due process on vagueness grounds

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).