United States v. Heras

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that \anticipated compensation\ based on the possible \achievement of [a] ... scheme\ may \support[ ] a jury inference that a defendant knows and has adopted the conspiracy's goals\
• cautioning that appellate review of sufficiency must not “usurp the role of the jury by substituting [court’s] own determination of the weight of the evidence and the reasonable inferences to be drawn for that of the jury” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• “The law has long recognized that criminal intent may be proved by circumstantial evidence alone.”
• “The law has long recognized that criminal intent may be proved by circumstantial evidence alone.”
• “The law has long recognized that criminal intent may be proved by circumstantial evidence alone.”
• “When a person possessing … knowledge 6 [of a criminal objective] agrees to facilitate or actually facilitates the crime, a jury may reasonably infer from this combination of knowledge and action that the defendant has adopted the known goal of the crime as his own.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).