Legal Opinion
William J.R. Embrey v. Greg Hershberger, Warden, United States Medical Center for Federal Prisoners
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided December 17, 1997No. 95-2906PublishedCited by 67 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MORRIS SHEPPARD ARNOLD, Circuit Judge.
Almost twenty years ago, William J.R. Embrey and an accomplice, both armed, forced a banker to withdraw $11,000 from his. bank, and then fled across a state line taking the banker along as a hostage. As a consequence, Mr. Embrey was convicted of armed bank robbery, in violation of the Federal Bank Robbery Act (FBRA), see 18 U.S.C. § 2118(a), § 2113(d), and of kidnapping, in violation of the Federal Kidnapping Act, see 18 U.S.C. § 1201(a)(1). He was sentenced to two consecutive twenty-year terms, one for each conviction..
In his petition to the district…
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