From Boston Globe:
CHICAGO -- Conrad Black's prosecutors won a ruling that makes it easier to convict the former chairman of Hollinger International Inc. and his codefendants of fraud.
US District Judge Amy St. Eve ruled Thursday that jurors may be told that conviction of the four men is possible if prosecutors proved the men purposely avoided knowledge of the fraud -- the so-called ostrich instruction. Closing arguments are set for June 18.
"The government has introduced sufficient evidence to support an inference of deliberate avoidance," St. Eve said in a ruling in federal court in Chicago.
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