U.S. v. Vance

In prosecution on series of bank robbery charges, Dist. Ct. did not err in admitting evidence of defendant’s participation in uncharged three restaurant robberies conducted shortly before charged bank robberies, where: (1) restaurant robberies were committed in same fashion that bank robberies were committed in that defendant in both charged and uncharged robberies rushed up to employees and demanded money while another individual who also was involved in restaurant/bank robberies, served as look-out; and (2) evidence of restaurant robberies was relevant to establish that defendant was one of two masked bank robbers in charged offenses. Moreover, other evidence from bank teller and girlfriend of defendant’s accomplice, as well as DNA evidence, linked defendant to charged bank robberies.