Legal Opinion
United States v. Leon A. Thomas
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided May 1, 2003No. 02-1140PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
SCIRICA, Circuit Judge.
This case requires us to determine the applicability of a United States Sentencing Guidelines sentencing enhancement for making a “threat of death” in connection with a robbery. The District Court found that defendant Leon Thomas had implicitly made such a threat in a note he handed to a bank teller in the course of a bank robbery, and consequently imposed a two-level enhancement. We will affirm.
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On June 4, 2001, Leon Thomas pleaded guilty to two counts of bank robbery, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a). It is uncontested that during the course of…
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