Robinson v. United States

The principal issue raised in this appeal is whether under the circumstances of this case the trial court’s imposition of separate sentences for each of appellant’s three convictions offends the Double Jeopardy Clause. We find that appellant was properly convicted and sentenced on all charges and, accordingly, affirm his convictions and the sentences imposed by the trial court.

I

On February 27, 1978, as the complainant walked to a bus stop near her home in Hyattsville, Maryland, she was forcibly grabbed and thrown into a car by a man, later identified as appellant, Julius C. Robinson, Jr.…