United States v. Lonnie Ray Wiseman

HOLLOWAY, Circuit Judge.

This is a direct appeal from convictions and a sentence in a criminal case. Our jurisdiction is conferred by 28 U.S.C. § 1291 and 18 U.S.C. § 3742. Defendant/appellant Lonnie Ray Wiseman was convicted by a jury on each count of an eight count indictment based on a series of robberies of grocery stores in New Mexico. Wiseman had been indicted jointly with Thomas Martin, with all counts alleged against each of them. The district judge ordered the cases severed for trial, after which Martin entered into a plea agreement. 1 Martin did not testify at Wise-man’s trial,…