United States v. Games-Perez

How courts have described this case

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

• rejecting that a defendant must knowingly possess the prohibited status at the time of the offense
• “[T]he only knowledge required for a § 922(g) conviction is knowledge that the instrument possessed is a firearm.”
• “[W]e can, as well, only guess how many more defendants with a triable claim have ended up pleading guilty or forgoing a potentially winning argument at trial or on appeal because erroneous existing precedents like Capps foreclose it.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).