United States Second Circuit

18 U.S.C. section 1542's "willfully and knowingly" mens rea provision only requires that the defendant provide in a passport application information he or she knows to be false.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/08/2004
• Published 10/11/2004

Judges

• SOTOMAYOR, Circuit Judge., Before:  SOTOMAYOR and KATZMANN, Circuit Judges, and BERTELSMAN, District Judge.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• James Keneally, Law Offices of Don Buchwald, LLP, New York, New York (Don Buchwald, on the brief), for Defendant-Appellant., Boyd M. Johnson, III, Assistant United States Attorney, New York, New York (Mary Jo White, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Baruch Weiss and Alexander H. Southwell, Assistant United States Attorneys, on the brief), for Appellee.