“knows or should know”??
Sounds like any lawyer with a correspondence course degree should be able to talk your way out of that one.
Sounds like any lawyer with a correspondence course degree should be able to talk your way out of that one.
I think buying them from a scrap yard in Indiana would fall under the "knows or should know" clause. If I were on the jury and the evidence was presented as given in the story I would vote guilty. He was trying to scam a $6000 refund for deposits which were never paid. That's fraud, just the same as if I send in a 1040 form and claim I paid $6000 in estimated taxes and now want refunded, but I never actually made the estimated payments.
Now, on the other hand if he had just kept his mouth shut rather than confessing, the cops wouldn't have had any information on past offenses and would have had a hard time prosecuting this one unless they followed him to see him get a refund and somehow knew that those were Indiana cans rather than Michigan cans.