Harrell E. Hagans, Brion X. Arrington, Warren N. Allen and Gary A. Leaks v. United States

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• declining to decide whether a claim of misjoinder first raised on appeal has been waived or should be reviewed for plain error
• declining to decide whether a claim of misjoinder first raised on appeal has been waived or should be reviewed for plain error
• “if the errors all were unpreserved, their aggregate impact would have to amount to plain error before the court might exercise its discretion to grant relief”
• “The burden on the government to establish harmlessness beyond a reasonable doubt is a heavy one, but it is not necessarily insurmountable.”
• implicitly endorsing the trial court’s use of a Pinkerton jury instruction in a conspiracy case and discussing complications that may arise in the context of vicarious liability for hearsay statements
• “[T]he doctrine of transferred intent . . . allowed appellants to be held liable for the . . . wounding of Flores-Bonilla even though the appellants intended to kill Madhis.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).