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· 6/22/1987

United States v. Thomas Dorsey and Ronald Franklin Barr

Citations

  • 819 F.2d 1055
  • 23 Fed. R. Serv. 333
  • 1987 U.S. App. LEXIS 7872

How courts have described this case

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

  • defendant claimed he “was merely an ‘unwitting’ observer . . . and that he had no intent to become involved in any criminal activity”
  • “While each defendant must have joined the conspiracy intentionally, each need not be privy to all the details of the conspiracy or be aware of all the other conspirators.”
  • “Where the extrinsic offense is offered to prove intent, its relevance is de- termined by comparing the defendant’s state of mind in perpetrat- ing both the extrinsic and charged offenses.”

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Judges: Hill, Hatcheit, Henderson

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