Legal Opinion
United States v. Demetrius Renaldo Bowers
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided January 22, 2016No. 14-11585PublishedCited by 34 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HALL, District Judge:
This case principally concerns what inferences jurors may permissibly draw from identity evidence from multiple crimes. A jury found Defendant-Appellant Demetrius Bowers guilty of eight counts of armed robbery in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1951(a) and eight counts of carrying, using, and brandishing a weapon in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(l)(A)(ii). The district court sentenced Bowers to 150 months for the § 1951(a) violations and to a mandatory 182 years for the § 924(c) violations, to run consecutively. On appeal, Bowers argues that the district court erred in three…
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