United States v. Tracee L. Taylor

How courts have described this case

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• holding that aiding and abetting under § 924(c) requires proof that “(1) the defendant knew, either before or during the crime, of the principal’s weapon possession or use; and (2) the defendant intentionally facilitated that weapon possession or use once so informed”
• finding that the defendant’s assistance to the armed co-defendant met the facilitation element
• finding that the defen- dant’s assistance to the armed co-defendant met the facilitation element
• upholding the constitutionality of the Hobbs Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1951, in the face of a Morrison challenge
• finding it sufficient that government proved that car was made in Kansas and stolen in Indiana
• “a reasonable jury could infer from the inherently violent character of carjackings that [the defendant] either anticipated or knew that [his accomplice] was going to use a weapon”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).