United States v. Shea

Case Date: 07/27/1998
Court: United States Court of Appeals
Docket No: 97-1069

United States Court of Appeals
For the First Circuit
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No. 97-1069

UNITED STATES,

Appellee,

v.

ANTHONY M. SHEA,

Defendant, Appellant.

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APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS

[Hon. Douglas P. Woodlock, U.S. District Judge]

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Before

Torruella, Chief Judge,

Aldrich, Senior Circuit Judge,

and Boudin, Circuit Judge.

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David H. Mirsky, by appointment of the Court, for appellant.
Ben T. Clements, Assistant United States Attorney, with whom
Donald K. Stern, United States Attorney, was on brief for appellee.



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July 24, 1998
____________________ TORRUELLA, Chief Judge. Defendant Anthony M. Shea
appeals his four-count conviction stemming from an attempted
bank robbery involving two other co-defendants, John Schurko
and Nicolas DiMartino. Schurko had pled guilty prior to trial,
and Shea and DiMartino were tried together and convicted on all
counts before a jury. Shea was sentenced to 382 months of
imprisonment.
Shea challenges the district court's denial of his
motion to suppress several statements he made after his arrest
and of his motion for discovery of any rewards provided to FBI
agents who were assigned to investigate him. He also claims
that the district court erred in its jury instructions
regarding 18 U.S.C.  924(c), which prohibits the use and
carrying of firearms during a crime of violence, and contests
the sufficiency of the indictment for the  924(c) count.
Finally, the defendant argues that the government is precluded
from asserting that he used and carried a certain semiautomatic
weapon which the government had previously attributed to his
co-defendant Schurko. We affirm.
I. BACKGROUND On an appeal from a criminal conviction, we summarize
the facts in the light most favorable to the jury's verdict.
See United States v. Gonz