Jack DeCoster owned Quality Egg, LLC$,$ an Iowa egg production company. Jack's son Peter DeCoster served as the company's chief operating officer. Jack also owned and operated several egg production companies in Maine, and Peter worked at those facilities. In $2008,$ salmonella enteritidis $("$salmonella$")$ tests conducted at the Maine facilities came back positive. Other than conducting the single egg test in April $2009,$ Quality Egg did not test or divert eges from the market before July $2010$ despite receiving cantiple positive environmental and hen test results. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estmated that about $56,000$ Americans fell ill with saluronellosis in $2010$ after consuming contaminated ecss. In August $2010,$ federal and state officials determined that the salmonella outbreak had originated at Quality Egg's facilities. A criminal investigation was opened, and Jack and Peter pled guilty as responsible corporate officers for introducing adulterated eggs into interstate commerce. The DeCosters now appeal their prison sentences, arguing that they had not known the eggs were contaminated at the time they were shipped. Do you believe

the DeCosters were successful in their appeal? Why or why not?