Legal Opinion
United States v. Gerald R. Carroll
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided March 15, 2000No. 99-2940PublishedCited by 81 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOWMAN, Circuit Judge.
Gerald Carroll was convicted by a jury of armed robbery of a federally insured credit union and a related firearms charge, and was sentenced by the District Court to life in prison plus twenty years. He appeals on three grounds. Carroll argues that evidence of a prior conviction was improperly admitted, that certain post-arrest statements were wrongly .introduced into evidence, and that the law requiring his lengthy sentence is unconstitutional. The latter two contentions are meritless. While Carroll’s prior conviction was erroneously admitted, that error was harmless,…
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