Jason Brown v. Carmen Palmer

How courts have described this case

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• noting that a defendant is guilty when he “performed [the] acts” and “intended the commission of the crime”
• noting the Jackson standard must be applied “with explicit reference to the substantive elements of the criminal offense as defined by state law”
• finding evidence that Brown was present at the scene and had some acquaintance with the perpetrator insufficient to support a conviction of armed robbery and car-jacking under an aiding and abetting theory
• noting that “[t]he state [had] offered no evidence that Brown had ever met the gunman prior to arriving at the gas station, that Brown possessed a weapon or handed one to the gunman, or that Brown knew that the gunman was going to commit a robbery and carjacking”
• affirming the district court’s grant of a writ of habeas corpus when the defendant’s presence at the scene of a crime and brief relationship with the gunman were insufficient to establish beyond a reasonable doubt that the inmate aided and abetted a gunman

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).