of his deed. The rule that “ignorance of the law will not excuse” is deep in our law, as is the principle that of all the powers of local government, the police power is “one of the least limitable.” Id. (emphasis supplied; citations omitted). Our supreme court followed Lambert in Giorgetti and held that a failure to register as a sex offender required a mens rea component, invalidating statutes which excluded knowledge of the duty to register as an element of the crime. Giorgetti, 868 So.2d at 517. Adkins also noted that the lack of a scienter requirement violated due process “if a criminal statute’s means is not rationally related to its purposes and, as a result, it criminalizes innocuous conduct.” Adkins, 96 So.3d at 420 (quoting Schmitt v. State, 590 So.2d 404, 413 (Fla. 1991) (<HOLDING>)). In sections 316.193 and 782.071, Florida
holding that a statute which criminalized possession of photos depicting a childs clothed or unclothed genitals would have criminalized entirely innocent conduct such as family photos holding that the defendants possession of the firearm was not so fleeting as to warrant an instruction on temporary innocent possession recognizing innocent possession defense to a charge of criminal weapons possession holding that for a compelling state interest to exist justifying an order of visitation over the objection of a childs parents a court must find an actual harm to the childs health or welfare without such visitation construing virginias statute as requiring such a finding holding an appeal from conviction for possession and promotion of child pornography that the defendant was not entitled to instruction that whether the content of a photograph constitutes a lewd or lascivious exhibition of a childs genitals depends on the intent of the photographer