Holloway v. United States

Holloway v. United States
Argued November 9, 1998
Decided March 2, 1999
Full case nameFrancois Holloway, a.k.a. Abdu Ali v. United States
Citations526 U.S. 1 (more)
119 S. Ct. 966; 143 L. Ed. 2d 1
Case history
PriorUnited States v. Arnold, 126 F.3d 82 (2d Cir. 1997); cert. granted, 523 U.S. 1093 (1998).
Holding
The federal carjacking law does apply to carjacking crimes committed by defendants with the "conditional intent" of harming drivers who resist the highjacker.
Court membership
Chief Justice
William Rehnquist
Associate Justices
John P. Stevens · Sandra Day O'Connor
Antonin Scalia · Anthony Kennedy
David Souter · Clarence Thomas
Ruth Bader Ginsburg · Stephen Breyer
Case opinions
MajorityStevens, joined by Rehnquist, O'Connor, Kennedy, Souter, Ginsburg, Breyer
DissentScalia
DissentThomas
Laws applied
526 U.S. 1 (1999)

Holloway v. United States, 526 U.S. 1 (1999), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the court addressed the issue of whether the federal carjacking law applies to crimes committed with the "conditional intent" of harming drivers who refuse a carjacker's demands.[1]

Federal law considers the act of hijacking an automobile as carjacking only if the hijacker did so with the intent to kill or inflict serious bodily harm to the driver of the car.[2]

  1. ^ "Holloway v. United States". oyez.org. Retrieved February 14, 2008.
  2. ^ Yaffe, Gideon (2004). "Conditional Intent and Mens Rea". Legal Theory. 10 (4). Cambridge Journal: 273–310. doi:10.1017/S135232520404025X. S2CID 54801893. Retrieved February 15, 2008.

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