Ruffin v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that evidence was sufficient to support ADW conviction where defendant “unloos[ed] a hail of gunfire at the vehicle” in which victims were sitting
• holding that it was \beyond question” that the purpose of \the statutory crimes of murder and AWIK [assault with intent to kill]” is the protection of individuals, and thus \multiple convictions can arise from a single criminal act\ if there are multiple victims
• discussing Ford and upholding the conviction of defendant for first degree murder of unintended victim under the doctrine of transferred intent where defendant only wounded intended victim
• “[S]ingle assaultive acts directed at a group of individuals ([physically] injuring none of them) have been found to give rise to only one count of assault.”
• adopting a criminal law mens rea theory of concurrent intent denied by Ford v. State, 625 A.2d 984 (Md. 1993), and later adopted by Henry v. State, 19 A.3d 944 (Md. 2011)
• distinguishing a multiple gunshot, multiple victim assault from Alexander and Ladner

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).