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Second Circuit· 3/25/1971

United States v. Frank Squires

Citations

  • 440 F.2d 859
  • 1971 U.S. App. LEXIS 11129

How courts have described this case

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

  • 18 U.S.C. § 922(a)(6); Model Penal Code followed jury instruction rejected because it should have included \deliberate ignorance\
  • 18 U.S.C. § 922(a)(6); Model Penal Code followed — jury instruction rejected because it should have included “deliberate ignorance”
  • in areas of fiduciary responsibility under the securities laws “persons issuing statements are under an affirmative duty to investigate, and it is entirely appropriate to include ‘should have known’ within the definition of ‘know’ ”
  • a case upon which the court below specifically relied
  • defendant can be convicted of “ ‘knowingly ” making false statement by signing form without reading it, if he deliberately avoided reading it and, if he had read it, he would have been “ ‘aware of a high probability’ ” that he was prohibited from obtaining firearm

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Judges: Moore, Waterman, Feinberg

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