United States v. William MacPherson

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that “mens rea elements of knowledge and intent can often be proved through circumstantial evidence and the reasonable- inferences drawn therefrom”
• recognizing that “knowledge and intent can often be proved through circumstantial evidence and the reasonable inferences drawn therefrom”
• holding that \evidence sufficient to establish willful illegality necessarily support[ed] [a] lesser scienter requirement\
• holding that jury may infer guilty intent from pattern of conduct
• noting that claimant traveled to three different banks on the same day to make identical deposits
• collecting cases recognizing that mens rea elements of knowledge and intent are often proved through circumstantial evidence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).