End date 1954 | ||
Full case name Pereira, et al. v. United States Citations 347 U.S. 1 (more)
74 S. Ct. 358; 98 L. Ed. 435; 1954 U.S. LEXIS 2623 Majority Warren, joined by Frankfurter, Jackson, Burton, Clark Concur/dissent Minton, joined by Black, Douglas | ||
Pereira v. United States, 347 U.S. 1 (1954), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that the word "knowingly" in the federal mail fraud statute (18 U.S.C. ยง1341) should extend to all reasonably foreseeable consequences, even ones not specifically intended.
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