Legal Opinion
United States v. Gary Roberson
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided January 17, 2007No. 06-1121PublishedCited by 126 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
The defendant, with three accomplices, committed an armed bank robbery, netting $133,000, of which the defendant’s share was $50,000. He was charged with both bank robbery, 18 U.S.C. §§ 2113(a), (d), and using a firearm in a crime of violence (which bank robbery is). 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(A). It is unclear, but also irrelevant, whether he was carrying a gun. One of his accomplices brandished a gun, and a defendant is liable for the reasonably foreseeable crimes committed by his accomplices in the course of the conspiracy, Pinkerton v. United States, 328 U.S. 640, 646-48,…
2Cases cited27 opinions
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