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· 8/3/2012

United States v. Telly Byrd

Citations

  • 689 F.3d 636
  • 2012 WL 3139931
  • 2012 U.S. App. LEXIS 16102

How courts have described this case

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

  • explaining that for a defendant with prior history of reckless flight from the police, “it was not clearly erroneous to infer that [the defendant’s] participation in yet another reckless flight is more likely to be active than passive”
  • “A factual finding is clearly erroneous when the reviewing court is left with the definite and firm conviction that a mistake has been made.”
  • “That a reckless getaway is a reasonably foreseeable outcome of the underlying crime, however, is not enough by itself to support [the section 3C1.2] enhancement”

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Judges: Cook, Stranch, Stamp

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