Legal Opinion
United States v. Robert Robinson
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided June 21, 1996No. 95-3174PublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TATEL, Circuit Judge:
“Give me one pack of 20s or I will shoot somebody in here now,” read the note with which appellant robbed a Washington, D.C. bank. The question before us is whether those words amount to an “express threat of death” within the meaning of section 2B3.1(b)(2)(F) of the Sentencing Guidelines. Holding that they do, we affirm the district court’s two-level enhancement of appellant’s sentence.
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Section 2B3.1 of the Sentencing Guidelines governs sentences for robbery. Subsection (a) establishes the base offense level; subsection (b) provides several grounds for raising the…
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