HAMLEY, Circuit Judge:
Paul Eugene Lape appeals from his conviction, following a jury trial, of armed bank robbery, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a), (d) and (e). We affirm.
Lape's first point on appeal is that the trial court erred in denying a motion for mistrial after another witness divulged that Lape was an escapee from the California prison system.
Lape was tried jointly with codefendants Robert Miles Knox and Thomas William Taylor. Lape...
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