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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. 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.
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]
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The ostrich instruction is a jury instruction that the requirement of knowledge to establish a guilty mind , is satisfied by deliberate ignorance - deliberate avoidance of knowledge. [1] This principle became established in British courts in the 1860s, and became widespread in the United States in the late 19th century. [ 2 ]
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