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U.S. v. BLAKE

Nos. 07-4619, 07-4827.

571 F.3d 331 (2009)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Leeander Jerome BLAKE, Defendant-Appellant. United States of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Leeander Jerome Blake, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided: July 2, 2009.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Kenneth Wendell Ravenell, Baltimore, Maryland, for Appellant. John Francis Purcell, Jr., Office of the United States Attorney, Baltimore, Maryland, for Appellee. ON BRIEF: Rod J. Rosenstein, United States Attorney, Baltimore, Maryland, for Appellee.

Affirmed by published opinion. Judge TRAXLER wrote the opinion, in which Judge WILKINSON and Senior Judge BEAM joined.

OPINION

TRAXLER, Circuit Judge:

Leeander Jerome Blake raises numerous challenges to his conviction and sentence for offenses arising out of a carjacking that caused the death of the victim. We affirm.

I.

On the evening of September 19, 2002, Blake and Terrance Tolbert walked into a Maryland neighborhood with a gun, looking for someone to carjack. Blake pointed out 51-year-old Straughan Lee Griffin, who had just arrived home from work and...

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