United States v. William Ivon Turner

How courts have described this case

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• holding that when Congress fails to provide a statutory maximum, it “gives maximum discretion to the sentencing court,” such that “the maximum is life imprisonment”
• holding that, as matter of statutory construction, absence of statutory maximum in 18 U.S.C. § 2113(e) means life imprisonment is maximum sentence
• holding statutory penalty for forced accompaniment during bank robbery without resulting death is 10 years’ to life imprisonment
• observing that we review challenges to qualifica- tions of jurors for abuse of discretion
• affirming forced accompaniment conviction where defendant compelled bank manager to accompany him to bank’s vault
• referring to “the power of the court to fix the maximum sentence[]” (quoting Binkley v. Hunter, 170 F.2d 848, 849 (10th Cir. 1948)); United States v. Diaz, 245 F.3d 294, 301 (3d Cir. 2001

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).