United States Eighth Circuit

A "wilfull blindness" instruction is appropriate where the defendant was aware of the high liklihood of having to pay taxes but attempted to avoid learning the truth, and there is no Brady violation where the government does not turn over non-exculpatory evidence that is publically available.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/24/2002
• Published 01/24/2002

Judges

• MURPHY, Circuit Judge., Before McMILLIAN and MURPHY, Circuit Judges, and BATTEY, District Judge.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• John W. Lundquist, Minneapolis, MN, argued (Steven Z. Kaplan and Dulce J. Foster, on the brief), for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Lizabeth A. McKibben, Asst. U.S. Atty., Minneapolis, MN, argued (Thomas B. Heffelfinger, on the brief), for appellee.