Issac Lee Wells v. State

How courts have described this case

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• holding that failure to charge the knowledge-of-status element pre-Rehaif is a non-jurisdictional defect that does not affect the rights of the accused
• holding that a Rehaif-based error did not affect the defendant’s substantial rights when (1) “[t]here was no contemporaneous evidence to suggest that, had the indictment included the knowledge-of-status element, [the defendant] would have changed his plea and proceeded to trial” and (2
• finding it “inconceivable” that the defendant did not know he was a felon when he served ten years in prison
• affirming sentence where factors that the dis- trict court weighed against the defendant included his “strong dis- respect for the law”
• reviewing for plain error a defendant’s argument on appeal that the district court impermissibly omitted an element of the offense from the jury instructions
• finding it “inconceivable” that a felon sent to prison for 10 years for prior burglaries did not know he was a felon

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).