United States v. Larry Whitfield

How courts have described this case

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• holding 23 that the phrase “death results” in 18 U.S.C. § 2113(e) “prescribes an offense element rather than a sentencing factor”
• joining the Second and Eleventh Circuits ―in rejecting the contention that bank tellers are not jeopardized simply because they are situated behind ‗bulletproof‘ glass‖
• joining the Second and Eleventh Circuits “in rejecting the contention that bank tellers are not jeopardized simply because they are situated behind ‘bulletproof’ glass”
• affirming attempted robbery conviction where armed defendant who intended to rob a bank was thwarted by a locking mechanism triggered by metal detectors at the bank’s entrance and was thus kept from ever entering the bank or detaining any victims
• “[A]n instructional error is harmless in circumstances where the jury actually made an equivalent or identical finding pursuant to another instruction”. (internal quotation marks omitted)
• “§ 2113(e) . . . create[s] separate offenses by the specification of distinct elements.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).