United States v. Taylor

ORDER

Within three months Prentice Taylor robbed a fast-food restaurant, a convenience store, and a bank. He personally brandished a gun during two of those robberies and supplied the gun his accomplice wielded during the third. Taylor was charged with two counts of obstructing commerce by robbery, 18 U.S.C. § 1951(a), one count of armed bank robbery, id. § 2113(a), (d), two counts of brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence, id. § 924(c)(1), and one count of possessing a firearm as a felon, id. § 922(g)(1). He faced a statutory minimum sentence totaling 47 years: 15 years for the §…