United States v. William Johnson

How courts have described this case

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• declining to adopt the D.C. Circuit’s reasoning in Mason to create an innocent possession defense
• declining to adopt an innocent possession defense to liability under § 922(g), stating that “Congress knows how to create an affirmative defense when it wishes to do so” and listing affirmative defenses provided by statute
• even though defendant’s “story[wa]s weakly supported and suffer[ed] from various problems,” defendant was entitled to jury instruction on his theory of defense “[i]n light of the low evidentiary threshold [defendant] must clear”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).