Legal Opinion
United States v. Jonathan Rafael Wilson
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided November 11, 1974No. 74-2247PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
2Per curiam
Wilson appeals his conviction of robbing a mailman with a dangerous weapon in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2114, pursuant to which he received a twenty-five-year sentence. He does not appeal his conviction of aiding and abetting a person in possession of stolen mail (18 U.S.C. § 1708), for which he received a five-year concurrent sentence. His frontal attack is upon the statutory twenty-five-year sentence as provided for in section 2114. We affirm.
Wilson first challenges the twenty-five-year sentence as cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment. We rejected this…
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