United States v. Garnett Johnnie Jones

WINTER, Circuit Judge:

Convicted of bank robbery, Garnett Johnnie Jones appeals, assigning as reversible error the limited scope of the district court’s voir dire of prospective jurors, its refusal to excuse two veniremen for cause, its instructions concerning the testimony of a witness who played a part in the crime and a witness who admitted to using drugs, and the absence of black males on the jury which rendered the verdict. We see no merit in any of these contentions, and we affirm.

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At trial, the evidence showed that a bank was robbed by Norman Scott and Jerry Rowell and that Jones drove…