Legal Opinion
United States v. Roy Lawrence, A/K/A Roger Lawrence
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided February 18, 1983No. 82-3341PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
E. GRADY JOLLY, Circuit Judge:
On January 22, 1982, a one-count indictment was returned against Roy Lawrence charging him with violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2114. 1 After a two-day trial, a jury found Lawrence guilty of the charge and he was subsequently sentenced to twenty-five years imprisonment. Lawrence has filed a timely appeal.
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The incident for which Lawrence was found guilty occurred on Christmas Eve, 1981, at approximately 8:30 p.m. At that time, Joseph Harris, a truck driver for the United States Postal Service, was driving his five-ton tractor-trailer mail truck from the New Orleans…
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