United States v. Travon Gardner

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that an aiding-and-abetting conviction “depends first” on whether someone the defendant helped “could have been convicted of violating [the offense] as [a] principal[]”
• holding that “in order for aiding-and-abetting liability to attach under § 922(g), the government must show that the defendant knew or had cause to know that the principal was a convicted felon”
• finding that nine-month delay is not uncommonly long and is insufficient to warrant further consideration of the remaining Barker factors
• noting that the Sixth Circuit had “yet to decide” whether there must be proof that the aider and abettor knew or should have known that the principal was a convicted felon or whether strict liability was proper
• rejecting sufficiency of the evidence challenge to conviction for aiding and abetting § 924(c) offense where defendant knew that his co-conspirator “was armed to further the underlying ... offense”
• rejecting a Sixth Amendment speedy-trial claim based on a delay of “approximately nine months”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).