United States v. Platte

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• reaffirming our holding in Haddock, and noting that while such a good-faith instruction may be redundant with the fraud offense’s intent element, our circuit requires a separate good faith instruction
• addressing 18 U.S.C. § 2155(a), which prohibits “willfully” damaging national defense material
• “Cheek drew a sharp distinction between a mistake of law negating willfulness and a studied disagreement with the law.”
• “[t]he high-minded motives of Defendants do not negate their intent [I]f the law being violated is constitutional, the worthiness of one’s motives cannot excuse the violation in the eyes of the law.”

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