United States v. Mohammad Shibin

How courts have described this case

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• finding that piracy can merely “incite or intentionally facilitate acts committed against ships, persons, and property on the high seas”
• finding that piracy can merely “incite or intentionally facilitate acts committed against ships, persons, and property on the high seas”
• recognizing “that the facilitating conduct of [subparagraph (C)] is ‘functionally equivalent’ to aiding and abetting criminal conduct, as proscribed by 18 U.S.C. § 2”
• stating that because the defendant “could be prosecuted in the United States for hostage taking and maritime violence, he could also be prosecuted under § 924(c) for possessing, , using, or carrying a firearm in connéction' with those crimes”
• “[interpreted testimony might be unusable without the interpreter’s presence,” if “the particular facts of a case cast significant doubt upon the accuracy of a translated [statement].” (internal quotation marks omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).