Mansfield v. Rembert

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• 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, unless otherwise directed by the statute, “the term ‘knowingly’ merely requires proof of knowledge of the facts that constitute the offense.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).