United States v. Terry L. Adams

How courts have described this case

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• holding that touching a victim with a weapon and scuffling with a victim-are sufficient physical touchings to indicate an intent on the part of a defendant to act violently
• concluding that the evidence was sufficient to find that the carj acker’s gun was loaded based on the circumstantial evidence that he had fired shots at a police officer later that day with the same gun
• concluding that the evidence was sufficient to find that the carjacker’s gun was loaded based on the circumstantial evidence that he had fired shots at a police officer later that day with the same gun
• requiring the government to “show more than that the defendant committed the criminal acts; it must also show evidence of the specific mental culpability at issue” (citation omitted)
• finding a physical touching of a victim with a weapon per se sufficient to support that threat of physical harm is imminent and defendant intends to act violently
• finding threat of physical harm actual and imminent where defendant touched victim with weapon at the moment he demanded the car and attempted to enter the vehicle against the will of the driver

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).