United States v. John W. Rogers

How courts have described this case

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• warning that admission should be limited to those portions of the book relevant to the charge and the prosecutor may not suggest that a defendant should be convicted because he owned such seditious literature
• noting that, in determining whether the item at issue was a firearm under 18 U.S.C. § 921(a), the question for the jury was whether it was intended to work as a silencer
• where the guidelines limit a court to charge offense sentencing, those limits must be respected
• “the prosecutor should have been limited to using those portions of the book pertinent to the charge”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).