Legal Opinion
United States v. Lavelle Parks
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided November 28, 2012No. 11-3973PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
SILER, Circuit Judge.
Defendant Lavelle Parks appeals his sentence for armed bank robbery resulting in death, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2113(e). A prior panel of this court affirmed Parks’s conviction but remanded the case to the district court to determine the correct mandatory minimum sentence under the statute. Upon remand, the district court held that under the language of the statute, if death results to any person as a consequence of the offense, the penalty is a mandatory life sentence. The district court also denied Parks’s motion to withdraw his guilty plea and reinstated the…
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