United States Seventh Circuit

Sentence enhancement for use of a minor in a bank robbery is affirmed where: 1) the district court's factual findings were not clearly erroneous; 2) the district court correctly decided that it did not matter whether defendant actually knew that his assistant was a minor; and 3) the sentence was otherwise reasonable.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/11/2006
• Decided 08/15/2006
• Published 08/15/2006

Judges

• WOOD, Circuit Judge., Before POSNER, EASTERBROOK, and WOOD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Mark Karner (argued), Office of the United States Attorney, Rockford, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellee., Paul Flynn (argued), Rockford, IL, for Defendant-Appellant.