United States v. Wing Kwong, A/K/A David Kwong

How courts have described this case

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• holding that, in an attempted murder prosecution, “[i]dentity can be inferred through circumstantial evidence”
• stating that a court is permitted to use circumstantial evidence to infer a specific intent to kill
• “We are unable to say that the guilty verdict rendered here was surely unattributable to that error.”
• “[Kwong’s] library included books on weapons, booby-traps and other sabotage devices — not the type of library accumulated by the average citizen.”
• “Although a 47 murder may be committed without an intent to kill, an attempt to commit murder requires a specific intent to kill.” (internal quotation marks omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).