UNITED STATES v. MOSTELLA

No. 85-1120.

802 F.2d 358 (1986)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. George MOSTELLA, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided October 15, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rudy Orjales, Asst. U.S. Atty., San Francisco, Cal., for plaintiff-appellee.

A.J. Kramer, Asst. Federal Public Defender, San Francisco, Cal., for defendant-appellant.

Before WRIGHT, KENNEDY, and BEEZER, Circuit Judges.


KENNEDY, Circuit Judge:

Appellant George Mostella was convicted of unarmed bank robbery in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a). He argues that there was insufficient evidence of his sanity to convict him, and that he was denied a fair trial because of prosecutorial and judicial misconduct. We affirm his conviction.

Mostella's sole defense was insanity. His insanity defense rested on evidence that at the time of the robbery he was suffering from schizophrenia...

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