United States v. William Dean Hedgcorth, United States of America v. Franklin Joseph Camper

How courts have described this case

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• affirming convictions where defendants wielded “plastic water jugs filled with gasoline, motor oil, and soap” in part because defendants “built the firebombs for the sole purpose of destroying property and intimidating people”
• affirming conviction and distinguishing Reed because “[u]nlike napalm firebombs, gasoline cans with holes poked in the top are common items adapted to many legitimate uses,” such as “cleaning paint brushes” and “storing fuel for small machinery”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).