The following excerpt is from U.S. v. Henderson, 721 F.2d 276 (9th Cir. 1983):
In United States v. Jewell, 532 F.2d 697, this court held that "deliberate ignorance and positive knowledge are equally culpable." Id. at 700. We concluded that a statute requiring that the accused act with knowledge or knowingly is satisfied by proof that the defendant acted "with an awareness of the high probability of the existence of the fact in question." Id. at 700.
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