Whether the rule of Farmer v. Brennan should be extended to criminal cases involving the defendant's knowledge as an element of the offense and the government's use of deliberate ignorance evidence

QUESTION PRESENTED Whether the rule of Farmer v. Brennan, 511 U.S. 825 (1994), should be extended to criminal cases, in which the defendant’s knowledge of a certain fact is an element of the offense, and the government seeks to prove such knowledge with evidence of the defendant’s deliberate ignorance. ii LIST OF DIRECTLY