United States v. Edmund Miller Goodell

How courts have described this case

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• analyzing the text, purpose, and history of § 2K2.1(b)(4) and holding that it does not require scienter
• relying on rational basis review to uphold § 2K2.1(b)(4) against a due process challenge
• describing the “greater culpability” of a felon who possesses a stolen firearm
• “The Sentencing Guidelines’ enhancement for a stolen weapon also did not present Goodell with a ‘radically different situation’ at sentencing....”
• “[T]he existence of a mens rea is the rule of, rather than the exception to, the principles of Anglo- American criminal jurisprudence.” (quoting United States v. U.S. Gypsum Co., 438 U.S. 422, 436 (1978)
• “The language of the guideline enhancement is unambiguous[.]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).