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the other thing that abbe lowell is trying to do is argue that he knowingly had to be deceptive on that forum. that keyword knowingly doing a lot of work for the defense. so when we talk about knowingly, willfully, these are things called mental intent if you want to be fancy at cocktail parties, say mens rea is the latin term, and prosecutors always have to establish what the mental state of the defendant was. now here, the law says knowingly possess so the question is, well, he thought this is the argument for the defense. he thought he was no longer addicted or he thought he wasn t using any more therefore, he was not knowingly possessing a firearm unlawfully. now that sort of strains logic a little bit, but this isn t about proving whether something did or didn t happen. it s about poking holes and the government s case. and it could be a successful way to do that. that s what defense attorneys and good defense attorneys do and abbe lowell has been doing this a very long ti