He's either a fool, an incompetent or was improperly instructed.

The Supreme Court did find that in the previous lower court trial, the jury were improperly instructed:

In the ruling this week, Judge Yohn, of Federal District Court, found that the jury had been improperly instructed in the sentencing phase.

The Supreme Court held that the jury had been improperly instructed as to the nature of involuntary servitude under existing law and remanded the case for a new trial.

A court panel reversed one conviction outright, on the ground that the trial judge had improperly instructed the jury on a count charging destruction of documents.

In his opinion today, Justice Scalia said that once a jury had been instructed improperly on reasonable doubt, that error could not be harmless.

In legal briefs, Andersen contends that the jury hearing the criminal case against the firm was improperly instructed on the law.

Rowell had appealed his sentence as he claimed the jury were improperly instructed.

The appeals court upheld a defense argument that Judge Richard A. Niehaus had improperly instructed the jury in the case.

A conviction was overturned on appeal when it was found that the jury had been improperly instructed on entrapment.