Michael R. Keenan and Ramona L. Keenan v. Thomas Samuel Robin, Mary Margot Connor, Dustin Wayne Lubbock, Meredith C. Lubbock, and Lazy LR Cattle Company LLC

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• holding that a statute criminalizing membership in an organization offends due process if it “impermissibly imputes guilt to an individual merely on the basis of his associations and sympathies, rather than because of some concrete personal involvement in criminal conduct”
• holding that the Smith Act’s membership provision did not violate the Fifth Amendment’s Due Process Clause only because it required evidence of active membership and a specific intent to overthrow the government and was not directed at punishing “nominal membership”
• noting that a \blanket prohibition of association with a group having both legal and illegal aims ... [would pose] a real danger that legitimate political expression or association would be impaired\
• holding that, when a defendant is charged with furthering an organization's illegal aims, and that organization has both legal and illegal aims, the government must establish \clear proof that a defendant 'specifically intends to accomplish the [illegal] aims of the organization' \
• explaining that Fifth Amendment requirement of “personal guilt” does not “put[] beyond the reach of the criminal law all individual associational relationships”
• noting that a “blanket prohibition of association with a group having both legal and illegal aims ... [would pose] a real danger that legitimate political expression or association would be impaired”

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