Baylor v. Municipality of Metropolitan Seattle

How courts have described this case

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• “Finding the [defendants] guilty through a theory of Pinkerton liability is still permissible as long as the underlying predicate offenses qualify as crimes of violence under the § 924(c) elements clause.”
• “Finding the [defendants] guilty through a theory of Pinkerton liability is still permissible as long as the underlying predicate offenses qualify as crimes of violence under the § 924(c) elements clause.”
• stating in response to the defendants’ arguments that their underlying convictions were not predicate offenses under § 924(c) “both VICAR attempted murder and VICAR assault with a dangerous weapon are crimes of violence” under the elements clause
• rejecting argument that § 924(c) conviction was “predicated on a conspiracy charge” where “[b]Joth the indictment and jury instructions ensured that the jury knew the predicate offenses were VICAR attempted murder and VICAR assault with a deadly weapon”
• “A defendant can only succeed under this standard if the record is ‘devoid of evidence pointing to guilt.’” (quoting United States v. Childs, 539 F.3d 552, 558 (6th Cir. 2008))
• VICAR intentional murder is crime of violence under elements clause

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).