United States v. Mallory

How courts have described this case

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

• describing Justice Kagan's concurrence as containing \several important caveats\ and collecting cases that \either followed or acknowledged [her] narrow interpretation of an objectively reasonable mistake of law\
• describing Justice Kagan’s concurrence as containing “several important caveats” and collecting cases that “either followed or acknowledged [her] narrow interpretation of an objectively reasonable mistake of law”
• “When interpreting a statute we look first, and foremost, to its actual language and ascribe to its words their ordinary meaning.”
• “[A] number of states have either followed or acknowledged Justice Kagan’s narrow interpretation of an objectively reasonable mistake of law when deciding similar issues under the rubric of Heien’s analysis.”
• “[A] reasonable mistake of fact on the part of a police officer will not render a search or arrest predicated on that mistake unconstitutional.” (citing State v. Handy, 206 N.J. 39, 53-54 (2011))
• “[A] reasonable mistake of fact on the part of a police officer will not render a search or arrest predicated on that mistake unconstitutional.” (citing State v. Handy, 206 N.J. 39, 53-54 (2011))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).