United States v. Clarence Stallworth and Johnny Sellers

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing the \importance of a rule encouraging early police intervention where a suspect is clearly bent on the commission of [a dangerous] crime\
• observing that application of Model Code \emphasizes the importance of a rule [of attempt] encouraging early police intervention where a suspect is clearly bent on the commission of crime\
• observing that application of Model Code “emphasizes the importance of a rule [of attempt] encouraging early police intervention where a suspect is clearly bent on the commission of crime”
• observing that application of Model Code “emphasizes the importance of a rule [of attempt] encouraging early police intervention where a suspect is clearly bent on the commission of crime”
• affirming an attempted bank robbery conviction where the defendants, among other things, “armed themselves” and “moved ominously toward the bank”
• affirming an attempted bank robbery conviction where the defend- ants neither entered the bank nor brandished weapons, based on the Model Penal Code definition of “attempt” and public policy considerations

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).