Interpreting Statutes

• Author: Matthew G. Kaiser
• Pages: 355-384

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Interpreting

Statutes

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Interpreting

Statutes

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Statutes

§10:01 You’re Only Guilty of Messing With a Helicopter

Over Boston Harbor With a Laser Pointer If You

Intend to Mess With the Helicopter

§10:02 The Second Circuit Limits Bank Fraud

Prosecutions Where a Check Is Validly Issued

(and Other Facts Don’t Get in the Way)

§10:03 The Fourth Circuit Holds That Corporations

Aren’t People for the Purposes of the Identity

Theft Statute (or, Take That,

Citizens United

)

§10:04 Phone Calls From Africa to Kentucky Cannot Be

Prosecuted in Virginia, Even If Virginia Is Where

You Thought About the Fraud You’d Do on the

Phone Call

§10:05 Using Someone Else’s Credit Card Is Not Always

“Access Device” Fraud, or, Why You Shouldn’t

Leave Your Job If You’re Running a Fraud

Scheme

§10:06 Judge Posner on Harboring, the Dictionary, and

Trusting the Government

§10:07 Threatening a Corporation Is Not a Crime, Even

on Super Bowl Sunday

§10:08 Why You Will Not Go to Jail for Using Comic

Sans in a Pleading in Federal Court (Though

Maybe You Should)

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§10:01 Criminal Defense Victories in the Federal Circuits

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Statutes

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Interpreting

Statutes

§10:09 Chief Judge Kozinski Celebrates the Diversity of

Computer Misuse

§10:10 Drug Trafficking in the Waters of Panama Is Not

a Crime in the United States

§10:11 The Eleventh Circuit Vacates Based on a

Speedy Trial Act Violation

§10:12 An Internet Child Pornography Sting in the

Eleventh Circuit Reminds Us That Obstruction

of Justice Has More Stringent Pleading

Requirements

§10:13 Statutory Rape Is Not a Crime of Violence

§10:14 It Is Not Good to Commit New Crimes While on

Pretrial Release

§10:15 The Eighth Circuit Reverses a Sentence and

Shows Why Relying on Criminal Conduct

at Sentencing, Without a Conviction, Is

Troublesome

§10:16 A Clever Defendant in the Ninth Circuit Wins,

Then Loses, Arguing Double Jeopardy

§10:17 Ms. Tapia Wins! Again!

§10:18 Cuba, Baseball, Immigration Policy, and Crime

§10:19 More Defense Victories – in Brief

§10:01 You’re Only Guilty of Messing With a

Helicopter Over Boston Harbor With

a Laser Pointer If You Intend to Mess

With the Helicopter

United States v. Sasso, 695 F.3d 25 (1st Cir. 2012)

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