United States First Circuit

Even if Congress amended 46 USC 1903(f) to add a jurisdictional element where none existed before, the statute neither then nor now expressly made defendant's knowledge of the jurisdictional element either an element of the crime or a prerequisite to conviction.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/22/2001
• Published 05/22/2001

Judges

• LEVIN H. CAMPBELL, Senior Circuit Judge., Before TORRUELLA, Chief Judge, COFFIN and CAMPBELL, Senior Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• George F. Gormley for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Nelson Ṕerez-Sosa, Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Guillermo Gil, United States Attorney, and Jorge E. Vega-Pacheco, Assistant United States Attorney, Chief, Criminal Division, were on brief for appellee.