U.S. v. BOOKS

No. 17-3493.

914 F.3d 574 (2019)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Scott BOOKS, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided January 29, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kevin Crowley Knight , Attorney, Office of the United States Attorney, Rock Island, IL, Paul Morris , Attorney, Office of the United States Attorney, Peoria, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Robert A. Alvarado , Attorney, Office of the Federal Public Defender, Peoria, IL, Michael Ajay Chandra , Attorney, Office of the Federal Public Defender, Springfield, IL, for Defendant-Appellant.

Before Bauer, Brennan, and Scudder, Circuit Judges.


On trial for bank robbery, Scott Books chose not to testify in his own defense and was found guilty and sentenced to 180 months' imprisonment. He now challenges two pretrial decisions by the district court. The first allowed eyewitness testimony at trial from the two bank tellers that Books alleged based their identification...

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