Long v. State

Long v. State, 44 Del. 262, 65 A.2d 489 (1949), is an American criminal law case in which the court rejected the principal that "ignorance of the law is no excuse", including in cases in which the defendant is acting on incorrect advice from her private attorney that an act is legal, when it is not.[1]

References

  1. ↑ Criminal Law, 7th Ed., 2012, John Kaplan, Robert Wiesberg, Guyora Binder
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