United States Tenth Circuit

A conviction for possession with intent to distribute marijuana is affirmed over a claim that the district court erred in finding that the evidence warranted a deliberate ignorance instruction to the jury with regards to the knowledge element of the crime.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/07/2006
• Published 04/07/2006

Judges

• McCONNELL, Circuit Judge., Before HARTZ, SEYMOUR, and McCONNELL, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Jess R. Lilley, Lilley Law Offices, Las Cruces, NM, for the Defendant-Appellant., Richard C. Williams, Assistant United States Attorney (David C. Iglesias, United States Attorney, with him on the brief) Albuquerque, NM, for Plaintiff-Appellee.