“You have to be of a mind to do evil before it’s really a crime. “
Ignorance of the law is not an excuse. You don’t know that? What you are talking about is if I pick up the wrong umbrella leaving a restaurant. It would not be a crime (theft) if I truly thought it was mine and someone else’s looked like mine. I did not have “criminal intent”.
Sure it is! Just ask Hillary, who wiped her server. "Like with a cloth?"
Seriously, that is bad logic and bad philosophy.
"THE LAW" is so complex not even the experts understand it, and to think the rank and file public can grasp it is just ridiculous.
What you have there is a pithy little saying by another arrogant judge who didn't want to explain why he was being a horse's @$$.
I did not have “criminal intent”.
Neither did the man putting flowers on the grave of the woman who was to be his wife.