United States v. Joseph D'Amico

Appellant Joseph D’Amico was convicted after a jury trial in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, on the three counts of armed robbery, larceny and assault, acts which he was alleged to have committed in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2113 (a), (b), and (d). Appellant was sentenced to fourteen years imprisonment. The major thrust of his appeal, raised in the case for the first time, is that the Fourth Amendment’s prohibition against unreasonable searches and seizures was violated when a federal agent unarmed with a search warrant clipped, without appellant’s…