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· 1/30/2006

United States v. Cornelio-Pena

Citations

  • 435 F.3d 1279
  • 2006 U.S. App. LEXIS 2280
  • 2006 WL 218189

How courts have described this case

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

  • stating that \to be guilty of attempt a defendant must intend to commit the crime\
  • stating that “to be guilty of attempt a defendant must intend to commit the crime”
  • finding that a solicitation conviction was sufficiently similar to the other enumerated offenses because it required proof that the defendant intended the underlying crime to be committed
  • stating that “most crimes ... requiref] both mens rea and actus reus ”
  • stating that \most crimes . . . require[] both mens rea and actus reus\
  • “Solicitation seeks to induce the commission of a crime, and thus is the original, direct cause of the crime if it is subsequently committed.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Kelly, Baldock, Murphy

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