Hoopgate II Jury: Can a School be Defrauded if It is Willfully Ignorant
The jury deliberating in the case against Christian Dawkins and Merl Code asked the court if a college can be defrauded if it is “willfully ignorant” of what was going on all around it. The legal term was defined in a 1976 case involving drug couriers who claimed that because they never asked what was in the packages they were carrying across the Mexican border, they couldn’t be held criminally liable. The court disagreed. “Knowledge is established if a person is aware of a high probability of its existence.”
That should give the defense some hope that, despite the attempts by ... Log in to view full article.