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113216P.pdf 12/20/2012 United States v. Joseph Young
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 11-3216
U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota - St. Paul
[PUBLISHED] [Murphy, Author, with Bye and Shepherd, Circuit Judges]
Criminal case - Criminal law and Sentencing. District court did not err
in denying defendant's motion to sever his four bank robbery charges as
the evidence suggested that the same person committed the robberies
since the robber in each had a similar appearance and demeanor, and the
evidence from each robbery would likely have been admissible even if
the counts had been severed; no error in admitting evidence of
defendant's previous bank robbery convictions in South Dakota and West
Virginia as all of the robberies had common "signature features;"
evidence was sufficient to support the convictions; sentence was not
substantively unreasonable.