Nathan Leigh Willis v. the State of Texas

How courts have described this case

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• overturning conspiracy conviction where government showed that defendant helped facilitate an illicit transaction, but did not prove defendant knew the specific nature of the transaction
• reversing conviction where armed defendant functioned as lookout for conspirators and had messaging device similar to others arrested
• finding no evidence in the record that defendant had knowledge of the nature of the transaction and noting the lack of evidence that defendant had ever been in possession of the cocaine
• finding no evidence in the record that defendant had knowledge of the nature of the transaction and noting the lack of evidence that defendant had ever been in possession of the cocaine
• “In this case, as in Thomas, Cartwright was found to possess a firearm, a pager, and a cellular phone, and was even observed talking with [a co-conspirator].”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).