United States Eighth Circuit

Defendant's conviction for robbing a credit union and brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence is affirmed over claims that he was deprived of a fair trial by the prosecutor's improper and prejudicial use of three categories of evidence: 1) evidence of his flight as consciousness of guilt; 2) evidence elicited in violation of Rule 704(b); and 3) evidence of his release status.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/11/2006
• Published 08/11/2006

Judges

• GIBSON, Circuit Judge., Before RILEY, BRIGHT, and GIBSON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Virginia Guadalupe Villa, argued, Assistant Federal Defender, Minneapolis, Minnesota, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Richard Newberry, argued, Assistant U.S. Attorney, of Minneapolis, Minnesota (Thomas B. Heffelfinger, on the brief), for appellee.