State v. Leavitt

How courts have described this case

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

• finding Washington courts have rejected the general ignorance or mistake of law defense, but recognizing mistake of law created by misleading information from a governmental authority
• finding Washington courts have rejected the general ignorance or mistake of law defense, but recognizing mistake of law created by misleading information from a governmental authority
• sentencing court failing to inform defendant of firearm prohibition
• noting defendant’s reasonable reliance on predicate sentencing court’s error
• \ignorance of the law is no excuse\
• “ignorance of the law is no excuse”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

19 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Leavitt
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2001-07-20· cited 32×
• State v. Minor
  Washington Supreme Court· 2008-01-17· cited 24×
• State v. Carter
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2005-05-26· cited 21×
• State v. Wilson
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2003-03-31· cited 14×
• State v. Sweeney
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2005-01-04· cited 12×
• State v. Breitung
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2010-04-20· cited 12×
• Wellington River Hollow, L.L.C. v. King County
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2002-09-23· cited 11×
• State v. Moore
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2004-06-03· cited 11×
• State v. Wilson
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2003-05-05· cited 10×
• City of Auburn v. Solis-Marcial
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2003-12-01· cited 10×
• State v. Stevens
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2007-03-08· cited 9×
• State v. Locati
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2002-04-18· cited 9×
• State v. Blum
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2004-02-03· cited 9×
• Wellington River Hollow, LLC v. King County
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2002-09-23· cited 7×
• State v. Blum
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2004-03-09· cited 5×
• State v. Tyszkiewicz
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2005-02-23· cited 5×
• State v. Esquivel
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2006-03-30· cited 4×
• State v. R.P.H.
  Washington Supreme Court· 2011-12-01· cited 4×
• State v. Minor
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2006-06-27· cited 4×

Cites

12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Miranda v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-13· cited 58,288×
• Lanzetta v. New Jersey
  Supreme Court· 1939-03-27· cited 1,416×
• Raley v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1959-06-22· cited 376×
• United States v. Walter David Tallmadge
  Ninth Circuit· 1987-10-01· cited 104×
• United States v. Bernard L. Barker, United States of America v. Eugenio R. Martinez
  D.C. Circuit· 1976-05-17· cited 99×
• Miller v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1997-11-04· cited 50×
• Matter of Personal Restraint of Ness
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1993-08-03· cited 32×
• State v. Semakula
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1997-11-10· cited 32×
• State v. Patterson
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1984-04-09· cited 30×
• People v. Marrero
  New York Court of Appeals· 1987-04-02· cited 29×
• People v. Bray
  California Court of Appeal· 1975-10-27· cited 14×
• People v. Studifin
  New York Supreme Court· 1986-06-19· cited 9×