Defendant pleaded guilty to bank robbery. His presentence report applied a two-level enhancement after finding defendant made a death threat during the robbery. On appeal, defendant challenged the sentencing enhancement and argued that his sentence was substantively unreasonable. Where defendant’s ...

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Defendant pleaded guilty to bank robbery. The district court concluded defendant was a career offender, based on two prior federal bank robbery convictions, and imposed a two-level guidelines enhancement to sentence defendant to a within-guidelines range sentence of 151 months’ ...

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  Defendant pled guilty to bank robbery and the district court sentenced him to a within-Guidelines sentence of 108 months’ incarceration. On appeal, defendant argued that his sentence was substantively unreasonable, contending that the district emphasized aggravating factors at the ...

Tagged with: Bank Robbery Criminal Law Substantive Reasonableness of Sentence Within-Guidelines Range Sentence

  Defendant pleaded guilty to one count of bank robbery. At sentencing, the district court classified defendant as a career offender due to his current offense, a 1979 bank-robbery conviction, and a 2001 Missouri second-degree robbery conviction, finding that the ...

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U.S. v. Moua (MLW No. 71868/Case No. 17-2046 – 6 pages) (U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, per curiam)

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U.S. v. Lomas (MLW No. 69349/Case No. 15-3194 – 17 pages) (U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, Wollman, J.)

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State v. Coleman (MLW No. 67941/Case No. SC94554 – 9 pages) (Supreme Court of Missouri, Teitelman, J.; Russell, C.J., Fischer, Draper and Wilson, JJ., concur; Breckenridge, J., dissents in separate opinion filed; Stith, J., concurs in opinion of Breckenridge, J.)

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The Missouri Supreme Court said Wednesday that an unarmed man who stole money from a bank without directly threatening the use of force is nonetheless guilty of second-degree robbery.

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U.S. v. Young (MLW No. 64482/Case No. 11-3216 – 7 pages) (U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, Murphy, J.)

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U.S. v. Green (MLW No. 64157/Case No. 11-2308 – 11 pages) (U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, Colloton, J.)

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State v. Bolthouse (MLW No. 63428/Case No. SD31153 – 9 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Southern District, Burrell, P.J.)

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