United States v. Jessie Oliver and Gregory Cooper

MANSFIELD, Circuit Judge:

Gregory Cooper and Jessie Oliver, who were named with Ethel Mae Ridgeway 1 in a four-count indictment charging bank robbery, jointly appeal from judgments entered in the Western District of New York by Judge John T. Elfvin convicting each, after separate jury trials, of one count of aggravated bank robbery, 18 U.S.C. § 2113(d), and one count of conspiracy to commit bank robbery, 18 U.S.C. § 371. 2 The convictions occurred after Oliver’s trial was severed from that of his co-defendants and each was tried before a separate jury in October and November 1979. We affirm…