United States v. Moore

MEMORANDUM OPINION

ACKER, District Judge.

Before trial of the above-entitled case, defendants, Norman J. Moore and Rodney Hewlett, challenged the right of the United States of America to charge them in Counts Two and Four of the indictment with violations of 18 U.S.C. § 2119 and in Counts Three and Five with violations of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1), by simply adopting and repeating the acts charged in Counts Two and Four as the acts upon which Counts Three and Count Five were based. This challenge was contained in pre-trial motions to dismiss Counts Three and Five. The court found the issue puzzling…