Legal Opinion
United States v. John A. Ford
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided June 6, 2012No. 11-2034PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
A jury convicted the defendant of armed bank robbery, 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a), and the judge sentenced him to the statutory maximum of 240 months, id., in part because of his previous convictions for that crime. The appeal presents two issues; we begin with the lesser one, which involves the exclusion of a witness for the defense on the ground that he was an alibi witness and the defense had not given the prosecution the notice required before trial by Fed.R.Crim.P. 12.1(a). The defendant argues that the witness he wanted to call was not an alibi witness and so the rule…
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