United States v. Bryan Burwell

Opinion for the Court by Circuit Judge BROWN.

BROWN, Circuit Judge:

The relatively routine legal questions presented by this appeal arise from quite an unusual set of facts. Appellants are modern-day bank robbers whose old-school tactics — more reminiscent of the brashness of John Dillinger than the subtlety of Willie Sutton- — -included subduing innocent bystanders with gratuitous gunplay, pistol whipping a victim, and peppering a pursuing police car with bullets. When the aftermath of their final robbery was captured on film by a TV station’s news camera crew, the robbers were apprehended a…