Harold C. Ostrosky v. State of Alaska Roger v. Endell, Commissioner of Corrections

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that “[t]he purpose of a mistake-of-law defense is to negate the mental state that the defendant must have to be guilty of the charged crime”
• holding that a rule that a defendant has a due process right \to rely as a matter of law on a lower court decision in his own case that a statute is unconstitutional even though the case is on appeal to a higher court\ fits within the second Teague exception
• announcing a new due process rule concerning mistake of law defenses and finding that the rule falls within the Teague exception for \procedures implicit in the concept of ordered liberty\
• retroactive application for a trial court decision holding unconstitutional the statute under which the defendant was convicted
• retroactive application for a trial court decision holding unconstitutional the statute under which the defendant was convicted

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).