UNITED STATES v. WILKINS

Nos. 80-1269, 80-1270 and 80-1409.

659 F.2d 769 (1981)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Luther WILKINS, Morris Lewis, and Sam Gates, Jr., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided September 11, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter R. Meyers, Patrick G. Reardon, Jeffrey S. Blumenthal, Chicago, Ill., for defendants-appellants.

Daniel M. Purdom, Asst. U. S. Atty., Chicago, Ill., Robert Walter Tarun, U.S. Atty., Dept. of Justice, Chicago, Ill., of counsel, for plaintiff-appellee.

Before SWYGERT, Senior Circuit Judge, FAIRCHILD, Circuit Judge, and THOMAS, Senior District Judge.


SWYGERT, Senior Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from the convictions of three defendants for bank robbery. Because each defendant has raised numerous grounds for reversal pertaining only to him, we will treat each defendant separately.1

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The evidence presented at trial established that on October 15, 1979, Morris Lewis and Curtis Lyons2 entered the Crawford Savings and Loan Association in...

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