United States v. Mei-Fen Chen

BARKSDALE, Circuit Judge:

Convicted of knowingly maintaining a place for the purpose of distributing and using a controlled substance (count one) and knowingly renting property for the purpose of unlawfully storing, distributing and using a controlled substance (count two), in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 856, Mei-Fen Chen (Chen) was sentenced to imprisonment for thirty months on count one and probation on count two, and the property forming the subject matter of the counts was forfeited. 1 Chen challenges the district court’s use of a deliberate ignorance charge for both counts. Because we hold…