United States v. Young, No. 11-3216 (8th Cir. 2012)
Annotate this CaseDefendant was convicted of four counts of bank robbery and sentenced on each to concurrent 220 month terms. Defendant appealed his conviction and sentence. The court affirmed and held that the district court did not err by denying his motion to sever the charges; by admitting evidence of his prior conviction for bank robbery; by entering judgment on insufficient evidence; and by imposing a substantively unreasonable sentence.
Court Description: Criminal case - Criminal law and Sentencing. District court did not err in denying defendant's motion to sever his four bank robbery charges as the evidence suggested that the same person committed the robberies since the robber in each had a similar appearance and demeanor, and the evidence from each robbery would likely have been admissible even if the counts had been severed; no error in admitting evidence of defendant's previous bank robbery convictions in South Dakota and West Virginia as all of the robberies had common "signature features;" evidence was sufficient to support the convictions; sentence was not substantively unreasonable.
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