United States v. Kealoha Crash Spinney

How courts have described this case

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• concluding proximate cause was met when the “[d]efendant supplied the idea and all the means for” the resulting harm
• observing that \[s]entencing factors applicable to drug crimes seem to be the exception to the rule that the Government prove probable cause when the charging statute calls for a certain result\
• awarding restitution under a pre-MVRA statute, in a conspiracy-to-assault case that resulted in the deaths of the targeted parties, and noting that “[a] restitution order is authorized if the defendant created the circumstances under which the harm or loss occurred”
• awarding restitution under a pre-MVRA statute, in a conspiracy-to- assault case that resulted in the deaths of the targeted parties, and noting that “[a] restitution order is authorized if the defendant created the circumstances under which the harm or loss occurred”
• government need not prove that the defendant was directly responsible for the loss
• “A restitution order is authorized if the defendant created the circumstances under which the harm or loss occurred.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).