Santos v. District of Columbia

How courts have described this case

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

• “In general, the ‘definition of the elements of a criminal offense is entrusted to the legislature.’”
• “the lightness of the potential penalties supports the inference that strict liability was intended”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).