United States v. Gloria Zafiro, Jose Martinez, Salvador Garcia, and Alfonso Soto

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that government established “more” than mere presence through expert testimony that “drug dealers do not discuss or deliver large quantities of illegal drugs in the presence of innocent bystanders”
• holding that government established “more” than mere presence through expert testimony that “drug dealers do not discuss or deliver large quantities of illegal drugs in the presence of innocent bystanders”
• stating that “[g]uilt by association is not a permissible theory of criminal liability even in the war against drugs”
• one who permits her apartment to be used by members of a drug conspiracy to store their drugs was aider and abettor of the conspiracy
• “To be proved guilty of aiding and abetting, . . . the defendant [must have] desired the illegal activity to succeed.”
• blame shifting among co-defendants may be a reason to deny severance in order to prevent inconsistent verdicts and a miscarriage of justice

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).