United States v. Allen
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
425 F.3d 1231 (2005)
Relevant factsFree
Allen, recruited by a friend experienced in prior armed robberies, served as an unarmed getaway driver in a bank robbery where the group discussed using firearms beforehand and one robber displayed a gun to the others, and during the robbery one participant pistol-whipped two bank employees, though Allen never entered the bank and was later picked up on the street after missing the getaway van.
IssueFree
Whether a defendant can be convicted for a co-conspirator's substantive crime, even if the defendant himself did not participate in committing that crime.