Hugh Cameron Green v. Commonwealth of Virginia

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a lesser included offense instruction is available “in equal measure to the defense and to the prosecution”
• holding that innocent and non-fraudulent mailings can support a conviction under the mail fraud statute if they are part of a scheme that has a fraudulent element
• holding that mailing of title-registration forms satisfied mailing requirement because they contributed to success of the scheme
• holding that where lesser offense requires an element not required for greater offense, no lesser included offense instruction is required
• holding that where lesser offense requires an element not required for greater offense, no lesser included offense instruction is required
• holding that where lesser offense requires an element not required for greater offense, no lesser included offense instruction is required

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).