Benitez-Torres v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• a defendant may be held responsible for a co-defendant's possession of a weapon if that possession was in furtherance of jointly undertaken criminal activity and was reasonably foreseeable by the defendant
• “[T]he Supreme Court has made it perfectly clear that the right to present a ‘complete’ defense is not an unlimited right to ride roughshod over reasonable evidentiary restrictions.”
• a defendant may be held responsible for a co-defendant’s possession of a weapon if that possession was in furtherance of jointly undertaken criminal activity and was reasonably foreseeable by the defendant

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).