· 8/15/2016
James Lee, D/B/A Free Check Cashing v. One World Bank
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- holding that the mistake of law defense “is not available to people who form their own mistaken opinion about the law”
- stating that the principle that a “person’s ignorance of a criminal statute, or a person’s misunderstanding of a criminal statute, is not a defense” is codified in AS 11.81.620(a)
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