U.S. v. CONTRERAS

No. 07-2145.

536 F.3d 1167 (2008)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. John Norbert CONTRERAS, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

August 18, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Todd Hotchkiss, Frechette & Associates, P.C., Albuquerque, NM, for Defendant-Appellant.

Laura A. Fashing, Assistant United States Attorney, (Larry Gomez, Acting United States Attorney, and Robert D. Kimball, Assistant United States Attorney, Albuquerque, NM, with her on the brief) Albuquerque, NM, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Before HARTZ, EBEL, and TYMKOVICH, Circuit Judges.


EBEL, Circuit Judge.

Defendant-Appellant John Norbert Contreras appeals his bank robbery conviction and life sentence pursuant to 18 U.S.C. §§ 2113(a) & 3559(c), respectively. Contreras raises three issues. First, he contends that the district court wrongly admitted his probation officer's testimony — which identified Contreras as the robber from surveillance footage — because this opinion testimony...

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