Ostrich instruction

The ostrich instruction is a jury instruction that the requirement of knowledge to establish a guilty mind (mens rea), is satisfied by deliberate ignorance - deliberate avoidance of knowledge.[1] It arose from the case of United States v. Jewell.[2]^: 762

References

Ostrich Instruction: Deliberate Ignorance as a Criminal Mens Rea, Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, Volume 81 Issue 2, Summer 1990 Pages 191-234; I P Robbins,
Criminal Law - Cases and Materials, 7th ed. 2012, Wolters Kluwer Law & Business; John Kaplan, Robert Weisberg, Guyora Binder, ISBN 978-1-4548-0698-1,

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[OIDI-1] Ostrich Instruction: Deliberate Ignorance as a Criminal Mens Rea, Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, Volume 81 Issue 2, Summer 1990 Pages 191-234; I P Robbins,

[CL-2] Criminal Law - Cases and Materials, 7th ed. 2012, Wolters Kluwer Law & Business; John Kaplan, Robert Weisberg, Guyora Binder, ISBN 978-1-4548-0698-1,

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