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538 F.2d 1239

Docket No. 75-2510.

United States v. Hunter

Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals

Argued June 9, 1976.

Decided July 21, 1976.

Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals · decided 1976-07-21

2 counsel of record

Key passage — most relied on by later courts

“The judgments of conviction are affirmed, but the sentences under both counts are vacated and remanded to the District Court for resentencing under the second count pertaining to kidnapping during commission of a bank robbery, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2113 (e) (1970).”

quoted by 1 later decision, including United States v. Moore

Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2113

Relies on Prince v. United States · United States v. Tucker · United States v. Gaddis

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Opinion by (per_curiam) · Decided 1976-07-21

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Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently March 1999

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¶1Katherine Keller, Cincinnati, Ohio (Court-appointed), for defendant-appellant.

¶2*1240Ralph B. Guy, Jr., U. S. Atty., J. Brian McCormick, Christopher A. Andreoff, Asst. U. S. Attys., Detroit, Mich., for plaintiff-appellee.

¶3Before EDWARDS and LIVELY, Circuit Judges, and McALLISTER, Senior Circuit Judge.

¶4PER CURIAM.

¶5This is an appeal from jury convictions on two counts 1) of bank robbery by assault with a deadly weapon, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2113(b) and (d) (1970), and 2) a count of kidnapping during the commission of the bank robbery, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2113(e) (1970).

¶6Defendant was sentenced to 35 years of imprisonment on both counts, with the terms to run concurrently.

¶7The proofs at trial showed that on October 9, 1974, three armed men forced their way into the home of Richard Green, manager of the Ypsilanti Savings Bank in Grass Lake, Michigan, and bound and gagged the members of the family. In the early morning hours of October 11, Mr. Green was forced to go to the bank, under instructions to procure $50,000 in exchange for the safe return of his wife and two children. Green complied and took approximately $32,000 from the bank and left it in an open field, which had been designated by the bandits as the drop site. These facts and the identity of the appellant as one of the participants in the crime were established by evidence at the trial furnished by members of the family and one of the principals in the robbery.

¶8On appeal to this court no issues pertaining to guilt or innocence are presented, but it is asserted that the District Court erred in administering two separate 35-year concurrent sentences and in allowing the jury to consider and bring in guilty verdicts on two counts which it is claimed arose entirely from the commission of one criminal act.

¶9At oral argument the Assistant United States Attorney conceded error in the administration of two sentences under the facts of this case and joined in requesting the court to vacate both sentences and remand for resentencing under the conviction on the second count of kidnapping during the commission of a bank robbery, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2113(e) (1970). In view of the holding of the United States Supreme Court in Prince v. United States, 352 U.S. 322, 77 S.Ct. 403, 1 L.Ed.2d 370 (1957), which rejected pyramiding penalties under the Federal Bank Robbery Act where the offenses arose from the same transaction, we accept the government’s concession. Appellant vigorously contends that we should likewise vacate the conviction under the first count. This court has, however, to this point interpreted the Prince doctrine as requiring vacation of multiple sentences but not multiple convictions under the Bank Robbery Act. See United States v. Fried, 436 F.2d 784 (6th Cir.), cert. denied, 403 U.S. 934, 91 S.Ct. 2264, 29 L.Ed.2d 714 (1971). We consider the two counts involved in this case particularly inappropriate for making any alteration in the holding in the Fried case. Here clearly the bank robbery and the kidnapping required quite different sets of proofs.1

¶10The judgments of conviction are affirmed, but the sentences under both counts are vacated and remanded to the District Court for resentencing under the second count pertaining to kidnapping during commission of a bank robbery, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2113(e) (1970).

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