Legal Opinion
United States v. Balsam
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided February 11, 2000No. 98-1476, 98-1477, 98-1478, 98-1672, 98-1894PublishedCited by 53 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CYR, Senior Circuit Judge.
In these consolidated criminal appeals, Todd Arsenault, Stephen Balsam, John Meuse, Thomas Meuse and Joseph Zacku-lar seek to set aside their respective convictions, and in certain instances the sentences imposed by the district court, in connection with a rash of armed robberies perpetrated in the Boston area during 1990. We affirm the district court judgment in all respects.
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BACKGROUND
While employed as an electrician at Bay-Bank in Lynn, Massachusetts in 1989, Thomas Meuse stole the bank’s blueprints. Later,- he recruited his friend James Ferguson, a convicted…
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