SCOTUS dispatch: government lawyer grilled for an hour on meaning of federal corruption statute
JURIST
APRIL 15, 2024
Gijs de Bra is a JURIST Assistant Editor and SCOTUS special correspondent, and a 2L at Cornell Law School. He was okay with Justice Sotomayor’s compromise because it would make ignorance of the law a valid defense, meaning that a person is not guilty if they don’t know that the gratuity is forbidden under law.
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