United States v. Binegar

Binegar (defendant), responsible for ordering contact lenses through his military logistics office, repeatedly received incorrect entitlement information from superiors and was never told he was processing orders improperly; he was convicted of stealing and conspiring to steal contact lenses, and the military judge instructed the jury that his mistake-of-fact defense required the mistake to be both honest and reasonable, which the court of criminal appeals affirmed; Binegar appealed, arguing only honesty should be required for this specific-intent offense.