Legal Opinion
United States v. Ridley
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided June 13, 2016No. 15-1309PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HAMILTON, Circuit Judge.
A jury found appellant Donald Ridley guilty on several felony charges for participating in a bank robbery. On appeal he challenges his convictions on three separate grounds: the sufficiency of the evidence that he brandished a firearm during the robbery; admission of an FBI agent’s lay testimony regarding cell phone tracking information; and the district court’s supplemental instruction to jurors when they said they were at an impasse. We affirm.
I. The Bank Robbery
On the morning of May 7, 2008, two men staged an armed robbery of the Farmers & Merchants Bank in…
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