United States v. Larry Charles Byrd

BRIGHT, Senior Circuit Judge.

The Government charged defendant/appellant Larry Charles Byrd in a single-count indictment with robbery of a federally insured bank in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a). A jury found him guilty and the district court 1 sentenced him to ten years in prison pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 4205(b)(2). On appeal, Byrd argues that the Insanity Defense Reform Act of 1984 is unconstitutional as applied to his case. He also asserts that the Government received an unfair advantage in closing argument by having a last word in rebuttal on the insanity defense, while the defendant…