Snowden v. United States
United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia
52 A.3d 858 (2012)
Relevant factsFree
During an armed robbery, a second gunman kept his weapon trained on victim Scales while Snowden (defendant) and others took cash, and about 15 seconds after Snowden's group fled, the second gunman shot Scales in the abdomen; Snowden was convicted of aggravated assault while armed under a conspiracy theory, and argued on appeal that the shooting occurred after the robbery was already complete and was not a reasonably foreseeable part of the conspiracy.
IssueFree
Whether a conspirator is liable for crimes committed by a co-conspirator when those crimes are reasonably foreseeable and carried out in furtherance of the conspiracy.