United States v. Edward A. Johnson, Cross-Appellee

How courts have described this case

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• stating that actual knowledge “is not a defense to the ‘materiality’ requirement” in the context of discussing whether a false statement is material under 18 U.S.C. § 1001
• determining that authority relied upon must be real and not apparent
• both entrapment-by-estoppel and public authority defense require reliance on official government communications that authorize violation of the law
• “The actual authority defense requires proof that a defendant reasonably relied upon the actual authority of a government official to request participation in an illegal activity.” (emphasis added)
• “Actual knowledge by the government is not a defense to the ‘materiality’ requirement of false statement prosecutions.”
• “CIPA has no substantive impact on the admissibility or relevance of probative evidence.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).