United States v. Michael Lee Matthews and Robert G. Prater

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• holding that a witness’ in-court identification was independently reliable without discussing the witness’ failure to identify the defendant from a pretrial photo array
• holding that the district court properly treated 11 defendant brandishing a toy gun as having carried a “dangerous weapon” for purposes of 12 sentencing enhancement
• holding that fact that robbers issued explicit threats while “brandish[ing] and point[ing their firearms] menacingly” was not sufficient to constitute“otherwise use” of the firearm
• stating that proper procedures include seating defendant in courtroom but not at defense counsel’s table during witness’s identification testimony
• pointing firearms at customers during bank robbery, ordering them tofloor, and threatening to kill them if they did not comply amounted to \brandishing\
• finding a statement 11 trustworthy, in part, because it “d[id] not reflect any attempt by [declarant] to minimize his own 12 culpability”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).