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To: Hugin

Hope the driver is never charged for his involvement in delivering them to the hotel.

If it were a robbery or a drive-by shooting, he’d be considered a co-conspirator. It is not uncommon for the driver in such cases to face stricter sentencing than the shooting/robber (when they plea bargain in exchange for testify against the others).


15 posted on 12/30/2016 6:31:45 PM PST by a fool in paradise (The COM-Left is saddened by the death of the Communist dictator Fidel Castro. No surprise there.)
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To: a fool in paradise
He's an Uber driver, it's like a taxi driver. If you are dumb enough to take a taxi to rob a bank they aren't going to charge the taxi driver.

Also, and this is key, he's the one who called the cops. The article says the cops thanked him for alerting them.

Given this I really don't understand your comment at all.

19 posted on 12/30/2016 6:44:30 PM PST by Jack Black (Dispossession is an obliteration of memory, of place, and of identity)
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To: a fool in paradise

That’s when the driver knows what’s going on and does nothing to stop it. In this case he didn’t know until the ride had started, and he called police immediately once it was safe to do so. No reasonable person could call him a conspirator.


33 posted on 12/30/2016 7:08:08 PM PST by Hugin (Conservatism without Nationalism is a fraud.)
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