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· 9/15/1993

United States v. George Washington Sykes, Jr.

Citations

  • 4 F.3d 697
  • 1993 U.S. App. LEXIS 23473
  • 1993 WL 347131

How courts have described this case

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

  • failing to pull over and thereby compelling police to force the defendant off the road constitutes reckless endangerment under the guideline
  • defendant had knowledge that he was fleeing law enforcement when officers identified themselves and drove a car with a red light in the front window
  • the finding that the defendant knew he was being pursued by police was not clearly erroneous
  • same and ruling that defendant’s post-arrest destruction of stolen checks in police vehicle did not qualify for exception

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: McMillian, Hansen, Arnold

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