Defendant appealed from the denial of his motion to set aside his convictions for robbery and armed criminal action. Defendant alleged ineffective assistance of plea counsel in failing to act as intermediary in plea negotiations and in representing defendant under ...

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Defendant appealed from the denial of his motion for post-conviction relief, in which he argued that trial counsel was ineffective in his robbery trial by pursuing as his sole defense a legal theory that had been foreclosed by judicial precedent ...

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Where a defendant challenged the application of the Armed Career Criminal Act to his sentence, the Missouri second-degree robbery statute satisfied the force clause of the act, so the district court did not err in classifying the conviction as a ...

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Where defendant challenged his convictions for first-degree robbery and armed criminal action, the judgment is affirmed because the defendant failed to show that he suffered from a diminished capacity at the time of the crime, and he failed to produce ...

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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 ...

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  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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