Political Quotes

“The claims have been made that the bill's requirement that a knowing violation of the statute occurs is unjust. The claim that it is too burdensome to require that a person knowingly violates the law before they can be said to meet the exceptions to the bill fails to understand the flexible nature of the requirement. A typical jury instruction regarding what the requirement 'unknowing' means states as follows: 'Knowledge may be proved by all of the facts and circumstances surrounding the case. You, the jury, may infer knowledge from a combination of suspicion and indifference to the truth. If you find that a person had a strong suspicion that things were not what they seemed or that someone had withheld some important facts, yet shut his eyes for fear of what he would learn, you may conclude that he acted knowingly.' The knowing standard is clearly flexible enough to produce justice in our courts in all circumstances.”