United States v. Richard Alan Cepulonis, United States of America v. Francis David Lovell

LEVIN H. CAMPBELL,

Circuit Judge.

After a jury trial appellants Lovell and Cepulonis were convicted of aggravated bank robbery, 18 U.S.C. § 2113(d). Each appeals, complaining of a number of evidentiary and procedural rulings by the district court. We affirm the convictions.

We state the facts initially only in broad outline, leaving it until later to flesh out the details in connection with particular claims. A Woburn branch of the Suburban National Bank was robbed of $17,000 on August 9, 1973, by three masked men carrying automatic rifles. The three men escaped only after a high-speed police…