Legal Opinion
United States v. George
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided July 22, 2008No. 06-3172PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the court filed by Circuit Judge BROWN.
BROWN, Circuit Judge:
A jury convicted Melvin George of robbing a Citibank branch of $2,095, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a). For this crime he received a sentence of ninety-two months in prison followed by three years of supervised release. Mr. George’s sister, Janene George, gave crucial testimony against him. At trial, Mr. George wanted to cross-examine his sister about her mental illness. Doing so, he believes, would have shown she was neither competent nor credible. The district court, finding no basis for this assumption, refused to…
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