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Panel Holds that Ohio Aggravated Burglary Statute Does Not Count as Predicate Violent Felony under ACCA. 

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2022), the Sixth Circuit read Borden as requiring a purposeful or knowing mens rea for offenses deemed violent felony predicate offenses. As the Sixth Circuit explained, Patterson “did not consider, as Borden now requires, whether the offense’s force element has a mens rea greater than recklessness.” Butts , 40 F.4th

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Canada Supreme Court hands down varied rulings on firearm-related mandatory minimums

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Hilbach , the court considered whether the five- and four-year mandatory minimums for two men convicted of armed robbery with a firearm were constitutional. They also believed that applying the four-year mandatory minimum in Zwozdesky’s hypotheticals would be “grossly disproportionate.”

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Defendant wrongly denied chance at murder resentencing

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Strong (2022) 13 Cal.5th Other parts of the jury’s verdict in this particular case also “do not reflect all of the factual findings necessary to support a murder conviction under current law.” because the aider and abettor has not sufficiently concerned himself with that murder.” Gonzalez (2021) 65 Cal.App.5th

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Larger March calendar includes high-stakes COVID insurance case

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2) Does state law preempt a local ordinance when both prohibit the same conduct and the state law has a mens rea component that the local ordinance does not? The court granted review in March 2022. 2022) 13 Cal.5th More about the case here. Burgos : The case was a grant-and-hold for a death penalty appeal. See Naranjo v.

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Good Doc, Bad Doc: Supreme Court Finds Prescriber Knowledge Counts

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Palmer — On June 27, 2022, in one of the last opinions issued during its current term, a majority of the U.S. Gilbert & Karla L. Supreme Court (six justices) issued a noteworthy opinion on criminal liability related to prescribers of controlled substances. 841) and its implementing regulations (21 C.F.R. United States, No.

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Could the Road to an AKS Violation Be Paved with Good Intentions? Pfizer Asks SCOTUS

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The Second Circuit’s Interpretation of the AKS and its Mens Rea Element. The Court instead interpreted the term, as used in the AKS, to mean an intentional violation of a known legal duty, but concluded that “the mens rea element goes no further.” 14, 2022 to decide whether to grant certiorari.

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Venue (and Changing Venue) in Criminal Trade Secret Cases

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US , 21-1576 (Supreme Court 2022). Of these, elements 1 and 4 are mens rea elements rather than conduct elements and so the 11th Circuit found them irrelevant to the venue question. by Dennis Crouch. Timothy Smith v. D intended or at least knew that the offense would injure the owner of the trade secret; and. ” U.S.