Where a defendant challenged his convictions for robbery and armed criminal action, the trial court did not abuse its discretion in denying his motion to exclude gun and ballistics conclusions because the state exercised diligence and good faith in making ...

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Where a defendant challenged his sentence in a robbery case, the judgment is affirmed because the defendant’s Minnesota conviction for first-degree aggravated robbery constituted a crime of violence for purposes of the Armed Career Criminal Act. Judgment is affirmed. U.S. ...

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Where a defendant challenged his conviction for first-degree robbery, the evidence was sufficient to support the conviction, but the trial court erred by omitting the definition of “dangerous instrument” from the instruction, so the judgment is reversed and remanded for ...

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Where a defendant who was convicted of robbery under the Hobbs Act and unlawful possession of a weapon challenged the admission of evidence of him wearing clothes similar to those worn by the perpetrator, the evidence was properly admitted as ...

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  Defendant pled guilty to robbery. Thereafter, defendant moved to vacate his conviction, alleging his counsel was ineffective for misadvising defendant about the immigration consequences of a guilty plea. The district court denied defendant’s motion without an evidentiary hearing. Where ...

Tagged with: Criminal Law ineffective assistance of counsel Motion to Vacate Conviction robbery

  Defendant committed a robbery while on supervised release from a prior bank robbery conviction. The district court sentenced defendant to an upward variance from the guidelines range. On appeal, defendant challenged his sentence as substantively unreasonable. Where the district ...

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Where a defendant who was found guilty of bank robbery challenged the admission of Facebook videos that showed him displaying guns and ammunition, the district court did not err in admitting the videos as intrinsic evidence under Rule 404(b), and ...

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Defendant moved to vacate his sentence, challenging application of the Armed Career Criminal Act. Defendant argued that his prior Missouri conviction for robbery did not qualify as a predicate offense after the Supreme Court’s ruling in Johnson v. U.S., 135 ...

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Where a defendant in a robbery and armed criminal action case argued that the trial court erred in overruling his motion to suppress based on the identification procedure, which involved an identification of the defendant in surveillance footage by his ...

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Where a defendant challenged his sentence and convictions for offenses including marijuana distribution, Hobbs Act robbery and using and carrying a firearm, the evidence was sufficient to establish a drug conspiracy, and the judgment is affirmed because the government introduced ...

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Defendant pleaded guilty to robbery and firearms charges; the district court imposed a sentence consecutive to an undischarged state sentence plaintiff was serving for assault. Defendant challenged the imposition of a consecutive sentence, arguing that it breached his plea agreement ...

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