Shane Tynique Evans & Ebony Ruffin v. United States

Nebeker, Senior Judge:

After a jury trial, appellants—Ebony Ruffin and Shane Evans—-were convicted of two counts of assault with a deadly weapon (hammer and taser), 1 assault with a significant bodily injury, 2 assault with intent to commit robbery while armed, 3 and armed robbery. 4 Additionally, Evans was convicted of obstruction of justice 5 and threatening to injure. 6 Ruffin raises two sufficiency of the evidence arguments pertaining to identification evidence and proof of knowledge for the aiding and abetting charge. Evans raises five arguments including failure to grant trial counsel’s…