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· 5/20/1999

United States v. Bertha Craig

Citations

  • 178 F.3d 891
  • 1999 U.S. App. LEXIS 9766
  • 1999 WL 319055

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding that defendant’s “failure to ask questions that would certainly arise from the circumstances ... is evidence that could lead a jury to determine” that the defendant deliberately avoided learning the truth
  • holding that defendant’s \failure to ask questions that would certainly arise from the circumstances . . . is evidence that could lead a jury to determine\ that the defendant deliberately avoided learning the truth
  • affirming obstruction enhancement where defendant falsely denied recruiting fictitious students in large scam because denial was material \to the question of her guilt\
  • applying the ostrich inference to another federal-grant fraud prosecution

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Judges: Easterbrook, Kanne, Wood

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