The following excerpt is from U.S. v. Licciardi, 30 F.3d 1127 (9th Cir. 1994):
The rule requiring mens rea was repeated with approval in Ingram v. United States, 360 U.S. 672, 79 S.Ct. 1314, 3 L.Ed.2d 1503 (1959). In that case the conspirators were engaged in gambling in violation of the laws in Georgia and "the participants in this large-scale enterprise had, through a variety of
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