United States v. Potts

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

WEIGEL, District Judge.

Defendant is charged with two counts of bank robbery in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a), and with two counts of bank robbery by the use of a dangerous weapon or device in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 2113(a) and (d). The maximum sentence for conviction is twenty years under subsection (a) and twenty-five years under subsection (d).

Defendant admits that he committed the four bank robberies charged in the indictment, and that during two of the robberies he possessed and displayed a handgun. He contends, however, that the handgun was not loaded. He…