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“factual impossibility exists 'where the objective is proscribed by the criminal law but a factual circumstance unknown to the actor, prevents him from bringing it about.”
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United States v. Han
factual impossibility exists 'where the objective is proscribed by the criminal law but a factual circumstance unknown to the actor, prevents him from bringing it about.
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United States v. James Carroll Beckett
See United States v. Hamrick, 43 F.3d 877, 882-83 (4th Cir.) (en banc), cert. denied, 516 U.S. 825 , 116 S.Ct. 90 , 133 L.Ed.2d 47 (1995) (a “fake bomb, as a matter of law, may constitute a dangerous weapon[under § 2113(d) ], regardless of its actual capabilities, when a victim confronted with it is placed in reasonable expectation of danger”) (quoting United States v. Spedalieri, 910 F.2d 707, 709 (10th Cir.1990)).
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United States v. Peter Saunders
See, e.g., United States v. Copus, 93 *915 F.3d 269, 272 (7th Cir.1996) (finding that a device consisting of a sealed metal casing containing explosive powder and a fuse was a destructive device); United States v. Tankersley, 492 F.2d 962, 966 (7th Cir.1974) (finding that an unassembled device consisting of an M-80, a Pepsi bottle filled with paint remover and a rope fuse was a destructive device); see also United States v. Hamrick, 43 F.3d 877, 884 (4th Cir.) (en banc) (finding that a homemade mail bomb composed of a battery, some wires, three butane cigarette lighters, and a lip-balm-like su…
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Okolo
v.
Immigration and Naturalization Service
v.
Immigration and Naturalization Service
No. 94-8807.
Supreme Court of the United States.
Oct 2, 1995.
Published
Citer courts: N.D. New York (1)
C. A. 9th Cir. Certiorari denied.