United States Fourth Circuit

Defendant's armed robbery conviction and sentence are affirmed over his challenges that 1) the trial court did not strike the veniremen who held accounts in the robbed bank, 2) he was wrongly convicted under the federal statute that penalizes for "forced accompaniment," and 3) the statutory maximum for his crime is 25 years.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/16/2004
• Published 11/16/2004

Judges

• Before WIDENER and WILKINSON, Circuit Judges, and Robert E. PAYNE, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia, sitting by designation.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:Michael Allen Bragg, Abingdon, Virginia, for Appellant.   Jennifer Rebecca Bockhorst, Assistant United States Attorney, OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES ATTORNEY, Abingdon, Virginia, for Appellee. ON BRIEF:  John L. Brownlee, United States Attorney, Abingdon, Virginia, for Appellee.