United States v. Lavance Greene, United States of America v. Randolph Greene

GASCH, District Judge:

Appellant Randolph Greene, while serving a sentence of 20 years for armed bank robbery, was, at his mother’s request, permitted to attend the funeral of his father on September 24, 1971. He was accompanied to the funeral by four armed deputy marshals. His half-brother, LaVance Greene, during the course of the funeral service in a crowded church, disarmed the deputy marshals, released his brother from custody, shot to death one of the deputy marshals, took their guns, commandeered at gunpoint a passing automobile, and attempted to escape with his half-brother Randolph. A…