Legal Opinion
United States v. Fletcher
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided August 25, 1997No. 96-20383PublishedCited by 51 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DUHÉ, Circuit Judge:
Sam Autry Fletcher, Frank Watts, Jr., Broderick Wilson, and James Adams Watts appeal their convictions for bank robbery and conspiracy to commit bank robbery. We affirm the convictions and sentences of Fletcher, Wilson, and Frank Watts. We also affirm James Watts’s convictions, but we vacate his sentence for bank robbery and remand for resentencing.
BACKGROUND
On April, 26, 1995, three masked and armed assailants robbed a Bank of America branch in Webster, Texas. Two of the robbers — one described as very tall, the other as average height — approached Christine Gob-er’s…
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