United States v. Rebecca Gibson

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the statement “I have a gun” absent mitigating circumstances would lead an ordinary teller to fear being shot
• stating that “I have a gun,” constitutes a threat of death unless “unusual mitigating circumstances accompanying this statement could deprive the words of their ordinary and expected meaning” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• stating that “I have a gun,” constitutes a threat of death unless “unusual mitigating circumstances accompanying this statement could deprive the words of their ordinary and expected meaning” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• stating that “I have a gun,” constitutes a threat of death unless “unusual mitigating circumstances accompanying this statement could deprive the words of their ordinary and expected meaning” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• robber’s note stating “I have a gun” constituted threat of death in context of robbery where unusual mitigating circumstances were not present
• a district court is entitled to find that de- fendant failed to accept responsibility when she sought to shift blame to another

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).