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Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 922', '§ 2024', '§ 901', '§ 921', '§ 922', '§ 924', '§ 921', '§ 921', '§ 921', '§ 921', '§ 921', '§ 921', '§ 5322', '§ 5324', '§ 5801']

GOF Amicus Curiae In Support Of Petitioner Sillasse Bryan
SILASSE BRYAN,
SILASSE BRYAN
I. Even without evidence of congressional intent as to the requisite standard of scienter necessary to sustain a conviction for unlicensed firearms dealing under 18 U.S.C. § 922(a)(1)(A) the Court would be warranted by long-standing precedent in holding that specific knowledge of the legal requirement for a federal firearms license must be proved beyond a reasonable doubt
II. The requirement for proof of specific knowledge is to be found both in the extensive legislative history and in a structural analysis of the statute itself
III. The requirement for specific knowledge is supported by the better reasoned decisions of the courts of appeals
Andrews v. State, 50 Tenn. 165, 8 Am.Rep 8 (1871)
Printz v. United States, 117 S.Ct. 2365 (1997) 2nd cit.
Ratzlaf v. United States , 510 U.S. 135 (1994)
Staples v. United States , 511 U.S. 600 (1994) 2nd cit. 3rd cit.
United States v. Bryan, 122 F.3d 90 (2d Cir. 1997) passim
United States v. Carmany , 901 F.2d 76 (7th Cir. 1990)
United States v. Collins , 957 F.2d 72 (2d Cir. 1992)
United States v. Forbes , 64 F.3d (4th Cir. 1995)
United States v. Hayden , 63 F.3d 126 (3d Cir. 1995) 2nd cit.
United States v. Hern , 926 F.2d 764 (8th Cir. 1991) 2nd cit.
United States v. Obiechie , 38 F.3d 309 (7th Cir. 1994) 2nd cit. 3rd cit.
United States v. Otiaba , 862 F.Supp. 251 (N.D. 1994)
United States v. Sherbondy , 865 F.2d 996 (9th Cir. 1988) 2nd cit.
United States v. Sanchez-Corcino , 85 F.3d 549 (llth Cir. 1996) 2nd cit. 3rd cit.
United States v. X-Citement Video, Inc. , 513 U.S. 64 (1994)
Amend. II 2nd cit.
Title 7, U.S.C.:
§ 2024(b)(1)
Title 15, U.S.C.:
Federal Firearms Act of 1938,
§ § 901-910
§ § 921-930 2nd cit. 3rd cit. 4th cit.
Firearms Owners' Protection
Act of 1986 passim
§ 922(a)(1)(A) passim
§ 924(a)(1)(D) passim
§ 921(a)(10)
§ 921(a)(11)(A) - (C)
§ 921(a)(12)
§ 921(a)(13)
§ 921(a)(21)(A) - (F)
§ 921(a)(22)
Title 31, U.S.C.:
§ 5322(a)
§ 5324(3)
§ 5801, et seq.
131 Congressional Record:
bound pages 16984 - 17003
132 Congressional Record:
Daily ed., April 9, 1986:
pp. H1649 - H1803 2nd cit.
Committee, House Report No. 99-495,
99th Cong., 2d Sess. (GPO; Washington,
D.C.; March 14, 1986)
Transcript of Joint Hearing of the Crime
Subcommittee of the House Judiciary
Committee and the National Security,
International Affairs and Criminal
Justice Subcommittee of the House
Committee, Review of the Siege of
the Branch Davidians' Compound in
Waco, Texas, 104th Cong., 2d Sess.
(Federal News Service; Washington,
D.C.; July 19, 1995 - August 1, 1995)
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of Federal Law Enforcement Agencies
toward the Branch Davidians, 104th
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Judiciary Committee, Federal Law
Enforcement and the Good Ol'Boys
Roundup (Federal News Service;
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at Waco (Federal News Service;
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Pollock and Maitland, History
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Five years later the Court had the opportunity to address the issue of a defendant's required knowledge of the law. In Lambert v. California, 355 U.S. 225 (1957), a prosecution under Los Angeles' felon registration ordinance, the Court stated the question as one of
whether a registration act of this character violates due process where it is applied to a person who has no actual knowledge of his duty to register, and where no showing is made of the probability of such knowledge.
Again in Cheek v. United States, 498 U.S. 192 (1991), the Court held in a prosecution for willful failure to file income tax returns and willful evasion of taxes that