United States v. Jones

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER CONFIRMING THE PRONOUNCED ORDER OF THE COURT IMPOSING LIFE SENTENCE

STAMP, District Judge.

I. Introduction

On September 4, 2003, a grand jury in the Northern District of West Virginia charged the defendant, Kofie Akiem Jones, along with three others, in a six-count indictment stemming from an attempted bank robbery and an armed bank robbery that occurred on July 19, 2003 in Morgan- town, West Virginia. The defendant’s trial on these charges commenced on January-26, 2004. On January 28, 2004, a jury found the defendant guilty of all six counts of the indictment.

On…