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Jewell, the court held that proof of willful ignorance satisfied the requirement of knowledge as to criminal possession and importation of drugs. [ 3 ] : 225 In a number of cases in the United States of America, persons transporting packages containing illegal drugs have asserted that they never asked or were never told what the contents of the ...
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]
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 ]
“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.” Don Lemon Tonight airs ...
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Voting rights advocate Stacey Abrams said on Tuesday the United States has fumbled its response to the coronavirus outbreak through "willful ignorance," threatening the economy and raising ...
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.
The suspension could have been longer if the referee hadn’t taken into account the lawyer’s state of mind and 12 people vouching for his good character.