UNITED STATES v. BROWN

No. 83-8088.

723 F.2d 826 (1984)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Ricky Ricardo BROWN, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

January 23, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Albert M. Pearson, University of Ga. School of Law (Court Appointed), Athens, Ga., for defendant-appellant.

W. Louis Sands, Asst. U.S. Atty., Macon, Ga., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before ANDERSON and CLARK, Circuit Judges, and DUMBAULD, District Judge.


PER CURIAM:

Ricky Ricardo Brown appeals his conviction of kidnapping in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1201. The conviction arose from his 1977 hijacking of a bus. Brown, who had no previous criminal record, was distressed by the recent breakup of his marriage and had apparently been drinking heavily before he boarded the bus. At some point during the Spartanburg, South Carolina to Atlanta, Georgia bus trip, Brown approached the bus driver with a .38 caliber revolver...

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