Legal Opinion
United States v. Benjamin Harold Brooks and Frederick James Treesh
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided September 9, 1997No. 96-1377, 96-1415PublishedCited by 152 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RIPPLE, Circuit Judge.
After a three-day jury trial, Benjamin Harold Brooks and Frederick James Treesh were convicted of bank robbery in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a). The district court then sentenced each one to 300 months of imprisonment, consecutive to any other federal or state sentence, and to 5 years of supervised release. On appeal they challenge a number of the district court’s denials of pretrial and trial motions as well as several of its evidentiary rulings during trial. Mr. Brooks also claims that the evidence did not support the verdict and that his counsel’s assistance was…
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