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U.S. v. PITRONE

No. 96-2090.

115 F.3d 1 (1997)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. William P. PITRONE.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided May 22, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter B. Krupp, Boston, MA, with whom Lurie & Krupp LLP, was on brief, for appellant.

Nadine Pellegrini, Assistant United States Attorney, Boston, MA, with whom Donald K. Stern, United States Attorney, was on brief, for appellee.

Before SELYA, Circuit Judge, COFFIN and BOWNES, Senior Circuit Judges.

SELYA, Circuit Judge.

This harlequinade requires us to examine a matter of first impression: the degree of scienter needed for a felony conviction under 16 U.S.C. § 707(b) (1994), a part of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA). Detecting no reversible error in the district court's rejection of the defendant's proffered jury instruction or in any other respect, we affirm the judgment of conviction.

I. THE STATUTORY SCHEME

In 1916, the United...

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