Legal Opinion
United States v. Willie A. Newman
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided May 20, 1998No. 97-3246PublishedCited by 119 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FLAUM, Circuit Judge.
A jury convicted Willie Newman of armed robbery of a bank in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) & (d). This was Newman’s third violent felony conviction—his “third strike” under 18 U.S.C. § 3559(c)(1)—and the district court therefore imposed the mandatory sentence of life imprisonment. On appeal, Newman challenges the district court’s denial of a motion to suppress various witnesses’ identifications of him, as well as the court’s decision to order restitution, the amount of that restitution, and an upward adjustment of his sentence based upon his physical restraint of a…
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