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U.S. v. Swiney, No. 97-6493 (6th Cir.) (203 F.3d 397) (February 14, 2000) (Judge Richard F. Suhrheinrich)

Back in 1946, the Supreme Court held in Pinkerton v. U.S., 328 U.S. 640, 647-48 (1946), that a co-conspirator may be vicariously liable for a substantive offense committed by another co-conspirator if the act was done “in furtherance of the conspiracy” and was “reasonably foreseen as a necessary or natural ...

 

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