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Criminal Law Keyed to Kadish
Liparota v. United States
Citation:
471 U.S. 419 (1985)Facts
Frank Liparota was the co-owner of Moon’s Sandwich Shop in Chicago, which was not authorized by the Department of Agriculture to accept food stamps. On three separate occasions, Liparota purchased food stamps from an undercover Department of Agriculture agent for substantially less than their face value. In the first transaction, he paid $150 for $195 worth of food stamps. A week later, he bought $500 worth of food stamps for $350. Approximately a month after that, he purchased $500 worth of food stamps for $300. These transactions occurred in the back room of his restaurant. At trial, Liparota requested a jury instruction that would have required the government to prove he “knowingly did an act which the law forbids, purposely intending to violate the law,” but the court rejected this instruction, instead instructing the jury that the government only needed to prove that he knowingly acquired the food stamps.
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