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• Carter v. United States, 530 U.S. 255 (U.S. 2000)
  …ct to the actus reus of the crime (here, the taking of property of another by force and violence or intimidation). Before explaining why this is so under our cases, an example, United States v. Lewis, 628 F. 2d 1276, 1279 (CA10 1980), cert, denied, 450 U. S. 924 (1981), will help to make the distinction between “general” and “specific” intent less esoteric. In Lewis, a person entered a bank and took money from a teller at gunpoint, but deliberately failed to make a quick getaway from the bank in the hope of…
• United States v. Gering, 716 F.2d 615 (9th Cir. 1983)
  …States v. American Theater Corp., 526 F. 2d 48, 50 (8th Cir.1975), cert. denied, 430 U.S. 938, 97 S.Ct. 1569, 51 L.Ed.2d 786 (1977); Pommerening, 500 F. 2d at 101-02. See also United States v. Chavez, 627 F. 2d 953, 957 (9th Cir.1980), cert. denied, 450 U.S. 924, 101 S.Ct. 1376, 67 L.Ed.2d 353 (1981) (upholding mandatory assessment of costs of prosecution under 26 U.S.C. § 7203 against constitutional challenges). In Burchinal, the Eighth Circuit distinguished Ducharme as limited to costs in prosecution for…
• United States v. Gant, 691 F.2d 1159 (5th Cir. 1982)
  …s confronted with a crisis as a personal danger, a crisis that did not permit a selection from among several solutions, some of which would not have involved criminal acts. United States v. Lewis, 628 F. 2d 1276, 1279 (10th Cir.1980), cert. denied, 450 U.S. 924, 101 S.Ct. 1375, 67 L.Ed.2d 353 (1981). The record reveals a reasonable, legal alternative of which Gant could, but did not, choose. It would have avoided the threat associated with the presumed robbery attempt without the criminal possession of the…