United States v. Abdullah Muhammad

OPINION OF THE COURT

RENDELL, Circuit Judge.

In these consolidated appeals, Abdullah Muhammad and Anthony Peterson appeal the convictions and sentences they received following a jury trial on charges arising out of a bank robbery and ensuing high-speed chase. They raise numerous claims of error. For the reasons that follow, we will affirm the District Court’s judgments of conviction and sentence as to Muhammad and Peterson.

I

On March 12, 2009, it was nearing closing time at a Bank of America branch in Somerset, New Jersey, when four men drove a stolen Jeep Cherokee into the bank’s parking lot.…