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Willful ignorance is sometimes called willful blindness, contrived ignorance, conscious avoidance, [4] intentional ignorance, or Nelsonian knowledge. [ 5 ] The jury instruction for willful blindness is sometimes called the " ostrich instruction ".
United States v. Jewell, 532 F.2d 697 (9th Cir. 1976), is a criminal case in which the court held that willful ignorance satisfied the requirements of knowledge of a fact. [1] The holding gave rise to the jury instruction known as the ostrich instruction. [1]
United States v. Giovanetti, 919 F.2d 1223 (7th Cir. 1990), [1] is a criminal case that interpreted the jury instruction known as the ostrich instruction, that willful ignorance counted as knowledge where required for a guilty mind in complicity to commit a crime.
Vincible ignorance is, in Catholic moral theology, ignorance that a person could remove by applying reasonable diligence in the given set of circumstances.It contrasts with invincible ignorance, which a person is either entirely incapable of removing, or could only do so by supererogatory efforts (i.e., efforts above and beyond normal duty).
Willful blindness or Wilful ignorance, intentionally putting oneself in a position where oneself will be unaware of facts that would render oneself liable; Willful damage, vandalism; Wilful fire raising, Scottish common law offence; Willful violation of workplace rules and policies, either deliberately or as a result of neglect
Cheek v. United States, 498 U.S. 192 (1991), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court reversed the conviction of John L. Cheek, a tax protester, for willful failure to file tax returns and tax evasion, who was convicted again during retrial. The Court held that an actual good-faith belief that one is not violating the tax law ...
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A closely related literature on epistemologies of ignorance has also been developing, which has included the identification of overlapping concepts such as white ignorance [25] [26] and willful hermeneutical ignorance. [27]