The following excerpt is from U.S. v. Price, 921 F.3d 777 (9th Cir. 2019):
The inclusion of some mens rea requirement is not necessarily enough to ensure that "a broad range of apparently innocent conduct" is not swept into a criminal prohibition. Liparota v. United States , 471 U.S. 419, 426, 105 S.Ct. 2084, 85 L.Ed.2d 434 (1985). If a mens rea requirement is interpreted to require knowledge of only innocent facts, then a person could be convicted despite genuinely believing that his acts were entirely proper. Staples v. United States , 511 U.S. 600, 612, 61819, 114 S.Ct. 1793, 128 L.Ed.2d 608 (1994).
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