United States v. George Schnabel

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• explaining that the willful blindness doctrine allows the jury to use circumstantial evidence to \impute the element of knowledge to the defendant if the evidence indicates that he purposely closed his eyes to avoid knowing what was taking place around him\
• explaining that the willful blindness doctrine allows the 48 jury to use circumstantial evidence to “impute the element of knowledge to the defendant if the evidence indicates that he purposely closed his eyes to avoid knowing what was taking place around him”
• explaining that the willful blindness doctrine allows the jury to use circumstantial evidence to ‘impute the element of knowledge to the defendant if the evidence indicates that he purposefully closed his eyes to avoid knowing what was taking place.”
• “The willful blindness instruction allows the jury to impute the element of knowledge to the defendant if the evidence indicates that he purposely closed his eyes to avoid knowing what was taking place around him”
• no prejudicial error in court's refusal to grant supplementary voir dire where defendant declined court's offer to excuse juror.
• ‘When there is evidence of both actual knowledge and deliberate ignorance ... a willful blindness instruction is appropriate.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).