United States v. Willie Beard, Noel Roberts

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• determining that flight evidence was admissible where the defendants, after observing a law enforcement officer, engaged in a four-mile car chase until they were ultimately pulled over and arrested
• noting that, to show a violation of Bruton, the defendant must show that “the out-of-court statement by his co-defendant [] directly implicated him and that the statement standing alone was clearly inculpato-ry”
• “There is no question that evidence of flight can raise a permissive inference of consciousness of guilt of the crime charged.”
• “There is no question that evidence of flight can raise a permissive inference of consciousness of guilt of the crime charged.”
• flight from law enforcement officers is evidence of guilt

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).