Commonwealth v. Giang

How courts have described this case

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• holding that knowing and intentional participation in principals' crime may be inferred where defendant drives getaway vehicle
• knowing participation could be inferred from surrounding circumstances where defendant served as getaway driver
• jury “reasonably could infer the requisite mental state for a joint venture” where defendant “instantly drove off with the principals in the attempted robbery as they fled from the store”
• driver in getaway vehicle rendered aid to principal in case of attempted armed robbery
• act of driving getaway vehicle sufficient to permit inference of knowing participation
• our courts are “unwilling to adopt a rule which would create artificial barriers against inferences of complicity which may naturally be drawn against one found present in a getaway car during or shortly after an armed robbery”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).