United States v. Ellison

BARRON, Circuit Judge.

Douglas Ellison pled guilty to violating 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a), the federal bank robbery statute. In this appeal, he challenges his 10-year prison sentence. We affirm.

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On August 20, 2014, Ellison was indicted in the United States District Court for .the District of New Hampshire on one count of violating § 2113(a). That provision reads:

Whoever, by force and violence, or by intimidation, takes, or attempts to take, from the person or presence of another, or obtains or attempts to obtain by extortion any property or money or any other thing of value belonging to, or in the…