United States v. Rubin Boris Scott

Rubin B. Scott, the defendant-appellant, was convicted by a jury under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a), (d) and (2) for armed robbery of the First National Bank of Commerce in St. Bernard, Louisiana. On this appeal, he attacks (1) the district court’s reconsideration and reversal of its previous order to suppress, (2) the government’s failure to make pretrial disclosure of a witness’ statements, and (3) the court’s exclusion of certain hearsay testimony. We affirm.

Within an hour of his arrest, Scott confessed to members of the New Orleans Police Department. In the course of interrogations conducted over…