United States v. Stephen James Stapleton, AKA Bob Johnson

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that jury instructions were adequate because they “required the jury to find that the co-schemers’ acts were in furtherance of the unlawful scheme”
• noting that a defendant may only be vicariously liable for the acts of co-schemers that “occurred during the defendant’s knowing participation or[were] an inevitable consequence of actions taken while the defendant was a knowing participant”
• noting that a defendant may only be vicariously liable for the acts of co-schemers that “occurred during the defendant’s knowing participation or[were] an inevitable consequence of actions taken while the defendant was a knowing participant”
• stating that “[t]he acts for which a defendant is vicariously liable must have occurred during the defendant’s knowing participation or must be an inevitable consequence of actions taken while 2 the defendant was a knowing participant”
• noting that a defendant may only be vicariously liable for the acts of co-schemers that “occurred during the defendant’s knowing participation or [were] an inevitable consequence of actions taken while the defendant was a knowing participant”
• noting that a defendant may only be vicariously liable for the acts of co-schemers that “occurred during the defendant’s knowing participation or [were] an inevitable consequence of actions taken while the defendant was a knowing participant”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).