Legal Opinion
United States v. Fred Fernandez
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided February 24, 1972No. 473, Docket 71-2129PublishedCited by 111 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FRIENDLY, Chief Judge:
Fred Fernandez appeals, on numerous grounds, from a judgment of the District Court for the Eastern District of New York sentencing him, after trial before Judge Costantino and a jury, to two concurrent terms of twenty years for armed bank robbery, 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) and (d). At a previous trial before Judge Bruchhausen, the jury had convicted a co-defendant but had disagreed with respect to Fernandez.
The robbery, of the First Federal Savings and Loan Association in Queens County, New York occurred on the afternoon of December 24, 1970. Four men participated; one,…
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