United States v. Arthur Howard Hill, AKA Sonny Hill

How courts have described this case

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

• finding that it was easier for defendant moving truck driver to steal because he was invited into homes to transport the families personal items
• “[T]he primary trait that distinguishes a person in a position of trust from one who is not is the extent to which the position provides the freedom to commit a difficult-to-detect wrong.”
• long-distance truck driver was in position of trust in relation to families relocating to Germany whose belongings he was transporting to intermediate shipping point; he abused that position when he stole from the cargo while in his possession
• compared to general public, not other truck drivers

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).