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· 11/18/2013

Loffredi v. United States

Citations

  • 134 S. Ct. 668
  • 187 L. Ed. 2d 442
  • 82 U.S.L.W. 3299
  • 571 U.S. 1036
  • 2013 WL 5743921
  • 2013 U.S. LEXIS 8238

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  • holding that so long as proof is legally sufficient to allow jury to find that predicate § 924(c)(1)(A) offense was committed, defendant need not be separately charged with and convicted of that offense
  • stating without elaboration that bank robbery under § 2113(a) constitutes a \crime of violence\ for the purposes of conviction under § 924(c)(1)(A)
  • upholding § 924(c) conviction even though conviction on predicate crime (bank robbery) was vacated, as there was legally sufficient proof that defendant committed the predicate crime
  • upholding § 924(c) conviction even though conviction on predicate crime (bank robbery) was vacated, as there was legally sufficient proof that defendant committed the predicate crime
  • “[C]ounsel’s failure to [raise] the arguments [that defendant] advances now was not objectively unreasonable, since those arguments are . . . meritless.”
  • “Counsel’s failure to [raise] the arguments [petitioner] advances now was not objectively unreasonable, since those arguments are . . . meritless.”

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