United States v. Rosemary MacDonald Houston

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that proximate cause was not a necessary element of a crime where the statute provided that an injury must “result from” the use of controlled substances
• finding harmless error in instruction requiring proximate cause although only actual cause was required
• noting “[p]roximate cause is not a necessary element of every crime” and finding proximate cause was not required where the statute provided injury must “result from” the distribution of controlled substances
• “Cause-in-fact is required by the ‘results’ language, but proximate cause, at least insofar as it requires that the death have been foreseeable, is not a required element.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).