U.S. v. Gonzales

Dist. Ct. erred in granting defendant’s motion for judgment of acquittal, after jury found defendant guilty on drug conspiracy charge, even though defendant denied that he was aware that certain packages that he was handling contained bricks of marijuana. Dist. Ct. appropriately gave jury “ostrich instruction,” and defendant’s statements to police demonstrated that he knew or strongly suspected that he was involved in criminal activity, but deliberately avoided learning that drugs were present in subject packages.