United States v. Dana Blum, United States of America v. Chester Blum

HENLEY, Senior Circuit Judge.

Chester and Dana Blum appeal their convictions for armed bank robbery, 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d), and using a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence, 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1). We affirm.

BACKGROUND

We recite only the facts which bear upon the issues Chester and Dana raise on appeal. On the morning of February 26, 1994, a man and woman robbed the Colonial Bank in St. Louis, Missouri of $44,000.00. The man was brandishing a shotgun, the woman a revolver. Of the money taken, $50.00 (five $10 bills) consisted of currency for which the serial numbers had…