Comments on: Fieger jury deliberates https://www.overlawyered.com/2008/05/fieger-jury-deliberates/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:17:01 +0000 hourly 1 By: Fieger gets off https://www.overlawyered.com/2008/05/fieger-jury-deliberates/comment-page-1/#comment-19235 Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:17:01 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=7069#comment-19235 […] those reimbursements of employees who donated to John Edwards? Just one vast coincidence, not a purposeful way of evading federal campaign finance laws. Now that the verdict’s in, could we please repeal the campaign finance laws in question […]

]]> By: Supremacy Claus https://www.overlawyered.com/2008/05/fieger-jury-deliberates/comment-page-1/#comment-18752 Sat, 31 May 2008 11:50:32 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=7069#comment-18752 Lawyers call that an inculpatory mistake of non-criminal law. For example, a babysitter allows a kid to smoke a cigarette, not knowing the regulation against that. Usually ignorance of the criminal law is not a defense. This is ignorance of non-criminal law, and more permissible.

Questions: Is such a defense allowed to a licensed lawyer?

If this a matter of law, and not of facts, should that argument be made to the jury, instead of to the judge?

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