United States v. Reginald Miles

BAUER, Circuit Judge.

A jury convicted Reginald Miles of attempted armed bank robbery and using a firearm during the commission of a violent crime. The district court sentenced Miles to mandatory life imprisonment for the attempted bank robbery and a consecutive sentence of sixty months in prison for carrying a gun during the attempted robbery. On appeal, Miles challenges two evidentia-ry rulings. We affirm.

I. BackgRound

On February 9, 1998, Reginald Miles walked into the Midland Federal Savings Bank in Chicago, Illinois and approached one of the tellers. Miles initially told the teller that he…