United States v. Starnes

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that under 18 U.S.C. § 2 (b), \a person who 'willfully causes' another to commit a criminal act is liable as a principal\
• noting that an abuse of discretion occurs when “no reasonable person would adopt the district court’s view” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• stating that “[g]iven the straightforward, conceptually simple arguments both defendants made at sentencing, . . . the District Court’s statement of reasons in each case, though brief, was legally sufficient”
• defining abuse of discretion as reliance on clearly erroneous finding of fact or an erroneous legal conclusion
• considering notice to the defendant of disclosure requirements and defendant's extensive professional experience when finding defendant's false statement \knowing and deliberate\
• “I lost control of my body. I didn’t have any control over anything, steering wheel or anything.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).