October 25th, 2018

United States v. Bowens

Docket: 17-10822
Opinion Date: October 24, 2018
Judge: Jerry E. Smith
Areas of Law: Criminal Law

The Fifth Circuit affirmed defendant's conviction and sentence for various crimes committed during robberies of wireless-telecommunications stores in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. The court held that the evidence was sufficient to support defendant's conviction of using a firearm in furtherance of Hobbs Act robbery under an aiding-and-abetting theory of liability; defendant's sentence on his subsequent 18 U.S.C. 924(c) conviction was properly enhanced; and Hobbs Act robbery qualifed as a crime of violence for purposes of section 924(c).

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