United States First Circuit

Conviction and sentence for evading federal income tax are affirmed over claims of error that: 1) the district court's willful blindness instruction was erroneous; and 2) the district court abused its discretion when it refused to admit into evidence legal materials on which defendant claimed to have relied in forming his good-faith belief that he did not have a duty to pay taxes.

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• Decided 10/22/2008
• Published 10/22/2008

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• United States First Circuit

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