Jewell Instruction Law and Legal Definition
Jewell instruction refers to a court’s instruction to the jury that a defendant can be found to have the requisite criminal mental state despite being deliberately ignorant of some of the facts surrounding the crime. However, if a defendant claims ignorance of some fact essential to the crime, such as not knowing that a particular bag contained drugs, but the surrounding circumstances would put a reasonable person on notice that there was a high probability of illegality, as when the defendant had taken the bag from a known drug dealer. The concept of Jewell instruction was developed from the case, U.S. v. Jewell, 532 F.2d 697 (1976). It is also known as deliberate indifference instruction.
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- Additional Instruction
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