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· 2/7/1983

United States v. Joseph Anthony Herbert, United States of America v. John David Herbert

Citations

  • 698 F.2d 981
  • 1983 U.S. App. LEXIS 30743
  • 12 Fed. R. Serv. 911

How courts have described this case

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  • suggesting that visibility of certain characteristics of a firearm may be sufficient to establish knowledge
  • suggesting that visibility of certain characteristics of a firearm may be sufficient to establish knowledge
  • noting that a sawed-off shotgun “may be a dangerous device of such type as would alert one to the likelihood of regulation”
  • noting that a sawed-off shotgun \may be a dangerous device of such type as would alert one to the likelihood of regulation\
  • applying higher standard to jury instruction error concerning elements of charge
  • it is constitutional to draw a petit jury from only one division rather than the whole district

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Judges: Skopil, Fletcher, Schwartz

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