Morissette v. United States
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| Morissette v. United States | ||||||||||||
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| Argued October 9 – 10, 1951 Decided January 7, 1952 |
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| Chief Justice: Fred M. Vinson Associate Justices: Hugo Black, Stanley Forman Reed, Felix Frankfurter, William O. Douglas, Robert H. Jackson, Harold Hitz Burton, Tom C. Clark, Sherman Minton |
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| Majority by: Jackson Joined by: unanimous Minton took no part in the consideration or decision of the case. |
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Morissette v. United States, 342 U.S. 246 (1952), is a U.S. Supreme Court case.
The defendant took government bomb casings which he thought were useless, turned them into usable metal, sells them, and profits. He was accused of knowingly converting government property. He had not a criminal intent; there was no mens rea.
First he was convicted, but the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the decision because strict liability is only appropriate for public welfare offenses.
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