United States v. Covington, No. 11-2652 (7th Cir. 2012)
Annotate this CaseDefendant robbed a bank and pleaded guilty to bank robbery and brandishing a firearm during a bank robbery, 18 U.S.C. 2113(a) and 18 U.S.C. 924(c)(1)(A). He received consecutive sentences of 36 months and 84 months. The Seventh Circuit affirmed, rejecting an argument that, during the sentencing hearing, the district court denied him his right of allocution under FRCP 32. The six-page transcript showed that defendant spoke at length on a variety of topics, including his troubled childhood, his relationships with various family members, and his time in the U.S. military, before the court interrupted in a way that was not intended to intimidate or terminate his allocution.
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