United States v. Spinney

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “[r]eliance on indirect, as opposed to direct, evidence in a criminal case is both permissible and commonplace”
• holding that if the defendant did not have actual knowledge of the principal’s intent, there must be at least “enhanced constructive knowledge”
• holding that if the defendant did not have actual knowledge of the principal's intent, there must be at least \enhanced constructive knowledge\
• discussing the continuum in the context of the “shared knowledge” requirement in prosecution of aiding and abetting armed robbery
• reversing conviction for aiding and abetting use or carrying of firearm by principal during crime of violence
• holding aider and abettor liable for the principal’s use of a weapon to commit armed bank robbery because “shared knowledge” need not amount to “actual knowledge” that a gun would be used to perpetrate the robbery

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).