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· 11/13/1987

United States v. Gregorio Manriquez Arbizo

Citations

  • 833 F.2d 244
  • 24 Fed. R. Serv. 352
  • 1987 U.S. App. LEXIS 14988

How courts have described this case

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

  • finding instruction with language nearly identical to instruction in the instant case “does not authorize conviction of one who in fact does not have guilty knowledge”
  • “[I]f the evidence against the defendant points solely to direct knowledge of the criminal venture, it would be error to give the instruction.”
  • “[I]f the evidence against the defendant points solely to direct knowledge of the criminal venture, it would be error to give the instruction.”
  • deliberate ignorance instruction appropriate when defendant cooperated in use of the code word \tires\ to mask communications about trash bags full of marijuana, combined with evidence of defendant’s direct handling of the trash bags
  • deliberate ignorance instruction appropriate when defendant cooperated in use of the code word \tires\ to mask communications about trash bags full of marijuana, combined with evidence of defendant's direct handling of the trash bags
  • prosecutor cannot place improper inference into the minds of jurors

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Judges: McKay, Tacha, Alley

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