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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 ".
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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]
“Yeah, I think that's a deliberate, willful ignorance, and it's the unintentional hilarity of a certain kind of whiteness that refuses to own up to what it is.” ...
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.
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Willful or wilful may refer to: with mens rea, the mental state of a crime Intention (criminal law) 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