United States v. Maurice Burse

SMITH, Circuit Judge:

On the morning of July 30,1974, a branch of the Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company Bank located in Lackawanna, New York was robbed of roughly $400. Approximately one month later, appellant Maurice Burse was indicted for that crime and charged with violating 18 U.S.C. §§ 2113(a), 2113(b) and 371 which make it illegal to rob a federally-insured bank or to conspire to do the same.

Indicted with Burse was one Darrell DeBose. A juvenile by the name of Gary Green was designated by the grand jury as an unindicted co-conspirator.

At Burse’s trial in the United States District…