United States v. Mei-Fen Chen

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• noting that section 856(a) “does not require the person who makes the place available to others for drug activity to possess the purpose of engaging in illegal activity; the purpose in issue is that of the person renting or otherwise using the place”
• “[W]e hold that the phrase ‘for the purpose of’ contained in § 856(a)(2) of the statute does not preclude a deliberate ignorance instruction for the knowl- edge element of that subsection.”
• deliberate-ignorance jury instruction was inappropriate where the government argued that the defendant was deliberately ignorant of drug activity occurring on her premises but, at the same time, maintained those premises with the express purpose that drug activity occur there

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