United States v. Bolajoko Aina-Marshall

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a person is “willfully blind” where he “was aware of a high probability of the fact in dispute and consciously avoided confirming that fact”
• explaining that a factual predicate exists where a rational juror can infer that there was a high probability that the defendant was aware of the fact in dispute and consciously avoided learning that fact
• ‘When a defendant charged with knowingly possessing contraband items takes the stand and admits possession of the contraband but denies having known of the nature of the items, a conscious avoidance charge is appropriate in all but the highly unusual—perhaps nonexistent case.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).