Legal Opinion
United States v. Sullivan
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided May 31, 1996No. 16-2109PublishedCited by 77 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LYNCH, Circuit Judge.
An armed robbery of the Country Hospitality Inn in Bangor, Maine in 1994 that netted the robbers approximately $520 was prosecuted federally. Defendant Dennis Sullivan was sentenced for the crime to spend almost the next thirty years of his life in prison. Defendant Thomas Platt was sentenced to more than thirty years. They appeal, ably arguing that the prosecutor was overly zealous, the evidence insufficient and the instructions deficient. While the prosecutor overstepped in asking one witness to comment on the truthfulness of another’s testimony, the misstep was…
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