accomplice after the fact

• State v. Ward, (Ohio 2012)

Trial court did not abuse its discretion when it imposed a four-year prison sentence, one year less than the minimum term, on a first-time felony offender who was an accomplice after-the-fact to an aggravated robbery involving use of a deadly weapon. Affirmed.

• Ohio Supreme Court

• In Latest Push for Mideast Peace, Which Side Will Organized American Jewish Community Be On?

Given the fact that opponents of the current peace efforts both within Israel and the U.S. are working in concert, the influence of the organized American Jewish community has, thus far, been a largely negative one-despite the fact that public opinion polls clearly show that the overwhelming majority of American Jews support a compromise which would lead to the establishment of a sovereign Palestinian state. Lawmakers from both sides of the aisle stood up to the president, who had the chutzpah to push Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir to stop expanding settlements as the White House tried to organize a Mideast peace conference.\n On the occasion of President Bush's recent visit to Israel, the lead editorial in Haaretz blamed Bush for being an 'accomplice after the fact' in the illegal, con...

• Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, The
• Vol. 27 Nbr. 3, April 2008

• Attorney: Vargas Was Protecting Her Son

Brenda Lee Vargas was doing what any mother could be expected to do -- protecting her son from threats against his life. Or she was an accomplice after the fact in a killing by trying to help him get away with murder.

• Gazette, The; Colorado Springs, Colo.
• June 08, 2006

• 'Soft Words of Hope:' Giglio, Accomplice Witnesses, and the Problem of Implied Inducements

Cassidy explores the tension between the prosecutor's interest in making only loose, open-ended representations to an accomplice witness and the interest of the accused in discovering as much information as possible about an accomplice's subjective expectations of leniency, whether or not they are based on a firm agreement with the government. Accounts detailing a proposed framework for reinvigorating the Giglio rule and a suggested amendment to the Model Rules of Professional Conduct to require prosecutors to put all representations to accomplice witnesses regarding future disposition of criminal charges in writing are also presented.

... to the forefront of the public's attention after the Tenth Circuit's hotly debated and widely publi... is more respectful to the ultimate factfinding function of the jury-would be to take greater step...

• Northwestern University Law Review
• Vol. 98 Nbr. 3, April 2004

• Third Suspect Arrested in Death of W.Va. Native

MINNEAPOLIS - An adult male allegedly helped destroy evidence after last month's fatal shooting of a West Virginia native in Minneapolis' Uptown area. Derrick Lamon Johnson, 33, was charged with one felony count of being an accomplice after the fact and one felony count of second- degree arson, Minneapolis police said Thursday.

• Charleston Daily Mail
• April 28, 2006

• Lorenzo Johnson v. Neal Mechling, (3rd Cir. 2011)

... Johnson was convicted as Walker=s accomplice and co-conspirator in this murder. . Johnson appea...We state the facts in the light most favorable to the Commonwealth, a...After Officer Davis searched further, an individual wave...

• Federal Circuits

• Waddington v. Sarausad, 555 U. S. ____ (2009)

... Sarausad and Reyes, who were tried as accomplices, argued that they were not accomplices to murder b... reasonably applied our precedent to the facts of this case, we reverse the judgment below. I. A.... with the Bad Side Posse, but left quickly after someone indicated that police were nearby. They we...

• U.S. Supreme Court

• Elem Ray Fulcher, Petitioner-Appellant, v. John Motley, Warden, Respondent-Appellee., 444 F.3d 791 (6th Cir. 2006)

... girlfriend, Patricia Sue Ash, taped soon after the crime. The couple later married; Ash invoked m...I. Factual and Procedural Background. A. Factual History. On ... Wright, Fulcher's friend and alleged accomplice, the police interview with Ash, the testimony of t...

• Federal Circuits

• USA V VIDAL, (9th Cir. 2007)

... it applies not only to principals and accomplices but also to accessories after the fact. We also co...

• Federal Circuits

• Executing those who do not kill: a categorical approach to proportional sentencing.

... defendants, including non-triggermen accomplices, the mentally retarded, and juvenile offenders. . ... had no intention of taking a life and who in fact did not take a life, could have his life taken by ... individuals executed in the United States after having been convicted of capital murder despite ne...

• American Criminal Law Review
• Vol. 48 Nbr. 3, June 2011