Supreme Court· 6/15/1998

Bryan v. United States

Citations

524 U.S. 184
118 S. Ct. 1939
141 L. Ed. 2d 197
1998 U.S. LEXIS 4011

How courts have described this case

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holding that term “willfully” in 18 U.S.C. § 924(a)(1)(D) requires proof that the defendant knew his conduct was unlawful
holding that instructions that might be ambiguous in the abstract can be cured when read in conjunction with other instructions
concluding that “[t]he danger- of convicting individuals engaged in apparently innocent activity ... is not present [where the defendant] knew that his conduct was unlawful”
holding that “willfully” requires only “that the defendant acted with knowledge that his conduct was unlawful.” (internal quotation marks omitted)
concluding that \[t]he danger of convicting individuals engaged in apparently innocent activity . . . is not present [where the defendant] knew that his conduct was unlawful\
holding that “the term ‘knowingly merely requires proof of knowledge of the facts that constitute the offense”

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Judges: Stevens, O'Connor, Kennedy, Souter, Thomas, Breyer, Scalia, Rehnquist, Ginsburg

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