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The People, Respondent,v.Curtis Basile, Appellant.

Brief

15 Cited authorities

  1. Smith v. Wade

    461 U.S. 30 (1983)   Cited 3,143 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Holding that a showing of maliciousness is not required for "recovery of punitive damages"

  2. United States v. Santos

    553 U.S. 507 (2008)   Cited 950 times   7 Legal Analyses
    Holding that when the government alleges that the defendant laundered the "proceeds" of an illegal gambling business, the government must prove that the laundering transactions involved the profits of the business, rather than its gross receipts

  3. Staples v. United States

    511 U.S. 600 (1994)   Cited 1,151 times   6 Legal Analyses
    Holding that a presumption of mens rea applies to statute otherwise silent on knowledge and thus requiring defendant to have known that the gun was an automatic

  4. Bearden v. Georgia

    461 U.S. 660 (1983)   Cited 1,390 times   4 Legal Analyses
    Holding that the State may enforce judgments against indigents by even such intrusive means as compelled "labor or public service"

  5. United States v. X-Citement Video, Inc.

    513 U.S. 64 (1994)   Cited 780 times   7 Legal Analyses
    Holding that because "the age of the performers is the crucial element separating legal innocence from wrongful conduct" under a child-pornography statute, the statute requires that the defendant have knowledge of the performer's age

  6. Papachristou v. City of Jacksonville

    405 U.S. 156 (1972)   Cited 1,519 times   7 Legal Analyses
    Holding vague an ordinance that punished “vagrants,” defined to include “rogues and vagabonds,” “persons who use juggling,” and “common night walkers”

  7. Bouie v. City of Columbia

    378 U.S. 347 (1964)   Cited 1,495 times   11 Legal Analyses
    Holding that extending South Carolina's trespassing statute to remaining on another's property after being asked to leave was inconsistent with the law's text barring only "entry" upon another's property

  8. Morissette v. United States

    342 U.S. 246 (1952)   Cited 2,269 times   15 Legal Analyses
    Holding that it is a defense to a charge of "knowingly converting" federal property that one did not know that what one was doing was a conversion

  9. Liparota v. United States

    471 U.S. 419 (1985)   Cited 641 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Holding that the Government is not required to "introduce any extraordinary evidence that would conclusively demonstrate petitioner's state of mind .... [but rather] may prove [the defendant's knowledge] by reference to facts and circumstances surrounding the case"

  10. People v. Ryan

    82 N.Y.2d 497 (N.Y. 1993)   Cited 229 times
    Concluding "that there is a mens rea [(i.e., knowingly)] element associated with the weight of the drug" in the offense of Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance in the Second Degree

  11. Section 15.15 - Construction of statutes with respect to culpability requirements

    N.Y. Penal Law § 15.15   Cited 92 times

    1. When the commission of an offense defined in this chapter, or some element of an offense, requires a particular culpable mental state, such mental state is ordinarily designated in the statute defining the offense by use of the terms "intentionally," "knowingly," "recklessly" or "criminal negligence," or by use of terms, such as "with intent to defraud" and "knowing it to be false," describing a specific kind of intent or knowledge. When one and only one of such terms appears in a statute defining