Legal Opinion
United States v. Stuart Kenton Skarda
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided May 9, 1988No. 87-5288PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOWMAN, Circuit Judge.
Stuart Kenton Skarda appeals his convictions on counts of bank robbery, assault, hostage taking, and possession of a firearm by a felon, all in connection with the February 1987 robbery of the Drayton State Bank in Drayton, North Dakota. We affirm.
I
The story of the Drayton bank robbery begins in January 1987. For most of that month, Skarda had been driving around the Midwest with two companions, Cynthia Ehrlich and her boyfriend Thomas Harrel-son. Harrelson was one of the FBI’s ten most wanted criminals. He could not walk without crutches, having shot himself in the knee…
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