United States v. Ismael Cruz

Ismael Cruz appeals his conviction and his 108-month total sentence after a jury found him guilty of robbing a Bank of America branch, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a), (d), as charged in Count 1 of his indictment. 1 Cruz raises two main arguments on appeal. First, he contends that the government presented insufficient evidence at trial to prove that he was the individual who committed the Bank of America robbery. Second, he argues that the district court imposed a substantively unreasonable sentence by refusing to credit his claim of innocence regarding the Bank of America robbery and to…