United States v. Kevin Gilmore

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• holding that for professional services to be appointed, a defendant must have shown that they were necessary to his defense and that he was prejudiced by the district court’s failure to authorize them
• stating that oral or written demands for money in a bank “carry with them an implicit threat: if the money is not produced, harm to the teller or other bank employee may result”
• affirming convictions where the defendant presented demand notes and issued commands like “Hurry up”
• permitting testimony from several tellers indicating that they personally experienced fear during a bank robbery as proof of the intimidation element under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a), which employs a similar objective test
• permitting testimony from several tellers indicating that they personally experienced fear during a bank robbery as proof of the intimidation element under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a), which employs a similar objective test
• “Evidence that the teller felt threatened is probative of whether a reasonable person would have been afraid under the same circumstances.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).