Legal Opinion
United States v. Mason Johnson
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided February 6, 2014No. 13-1350PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.
A jury convicted Mason Johnson of robbing three banks, and a judge sentenced him to 220 months’ imprisonment. The principal testimony against him came from Joseph Prince, who told the jury that he and Johnson had planned and executed the robberies together. Johnson asked the jury to discount the testimony of Prince, a confessed criminal. The prosecutor sought to bolster Prince’s testimony with that of Amanda Williams, who related that Prince asked her to give him a ride one day and was accompanied by a stranger when she picked him up. She drove her passengers to…
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