Perez-Castillo v. State

Blackburn, Chief Judge.

Following a jury trial, Edwin Perez-Castillo appeals his conviction for trafficking in more than fifty pounds of marijuana, contending in two related enumerations of error that the jury should not have been instructed to consider the doctrine of “deliberate ignorance” and, in the absence of this doctrine, the evidence was insufficient to support the verdict. For the reasons set forth below, we affirm.

On appeal from a criminal conviction, the evidence must be viewed in the light most favorable to the verdict, and the defendant no longer enjoys the presumption of…