UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Lung Van NGUYEN, Defendant-Appellant

How courts have described this case

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• noting that \we are reluctant to conclude that Congress intended to dispense with mens rea as an element of a crime absent some indication of congressional intent\
• noting that “we are reluctant to conclude that Congress intended to dispense with mens rea as an element of a crime absent some indication of congressional intent”
• noting that when criminal intent is an implied element of a crime it “is no less an ele- ment of the offense here than if it had been expressly pro- vided for in the statute”
• reversing a conviction where the jury instructions failed to require a finding of intent
• reading \knowingly\ to require specific intent in a statute that proscribed bringing aliens into the United States other than at a designated port of entry because otherwise it would \expose persons who perform innocent acts to lengthy prison sentences\
• reading \knowingly\ to require specific intent in a statute that proscribed bringing aliens into the United States other than at a designated port of entry because otherwise it would \expose persons who perform innocent acts to lengthy prison sentences\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).