United States v. Chase Alone Iron Eyes

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that “[t]he applicable principle is that if a defendant reasonably though mistakenly believes facts that negate the mental state necessary for conviction of the offense with which he or she has been charged, the crime simply has not been committed”
• listing possession of a firearm as an element of possession of a stolen firearm in violation of § 922(j)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).