United States v. Donald G. Fingado

How courts have described this case

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• observing that “Cheek [v. United States, 498 U.S. 192 (1991)] did not require the admission of any and all evidence show- ing a basis for the defendant’s beliefs”
• any error in excluding exhibits was harmless when defendant testified about claimed good-faith misunderstanding of tax laws
• deliberate ignorance instruction appropriate when evidence of defendants' awareness of the high probability that he misunderstood the tax laws was established, combined with evidence of defendant's attempts to avoid paying taxes
• deliberate ignorance instruction appropriate when evidence of defendants' awareness of the high probability that he misunderstood the tax laws was established, combined with evidence of defendant’s attempts to avoid paying taxes

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).