United States v. Chi Tong Kuok

How courts have described this case

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• holding that Congress set forth an intelligible principle in charging the President to designate, and regulate the export of, “defense articles and defense services”
• holding that an undercover government agent’s activities can be part of the conduct that forms an offense for purposes of venue
• holding that, under § 554(a), a defendant may be found guilty even when he neither takes possession of the item intended for export nor exports the item himself
• finding prima facie case of immediacy where persecutor “knew [the defendant’s] family’s movements and other intimate details that demonstrated that his family was regularly monitored”
• affirming validity of prosecution where undercover agent's conduct occurred in the district
• “[W]e have not held that a defendant must surrender to authorities after reaching a place of safety, except in prison escape cases.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).