United States v. Alexsi Lopez

Affirmed by published opinion. Judge Harris wrote the opinion, in which Judge Motz and Judge King joined.

PAMELA HARRIS, Circuit Judge:

In 2007, two young men robbed a brothel in Langley Park, Maryland, raping one victim and killing another. Several years later, DNA testing identified appellant Alexsi Lopez as a suspect, and Lopez was indicted in 2013, more than six years after the crime. Though Lopez was 17 years old at the time of the robbery, he was over 21 when indicted, and thus tried as an adult. A jury convicted Lopez of two counts under the Hobbs Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1951(a), the federal…