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District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 3/11/1987

Settles v. United States

Citations

  • 522 A.2d 348
  • 1987 D.C. App. LEXIS 306

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • finding Settles’ codefendant Whitley liable for aiding and abetting because he did nothing to disassociate himself from the criminal activity, in contrast to the defendant in Bailey
  • finding Settles' codefendant Whitley liable for aiding and abetting because he did nothing to disassociate himself from the criminal activity, in contrast to the defendant in Bailey
  • \a misjoinder may be deemed harmless only `if all or substantially all of the evidence of one offense would be admissible in a separate trial of the other'\
  • appellant's failure to avail himself of opportunities to withdraw from the scene could lead a reasonable juror to conclude that appellant tacitly approved and encouraged the commission of the crime
  • misjoinder “may be partially harmless and require only a partial reversal” where “offense B may be inadmissible in a trial for offense A, but offense A may be admissible in a trial for offense B”
  • “[M]ere presence at the scene of the crime, without more, is generally insufficient to prove involvement in the crime, but it will be deemed enough ‘if it is intended to [aid] and does aid the primary actors.’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Belson, Terry, Rogers

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Cites

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