(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) On the morning of September 26, 2008, Larry Whitfield and Quanterrious McCoy—armed with a .357 handgun and an AK–47 assault rifle—entered the front door of the Fort Financial Credit Union in Gastonia, North Carolina. Only one of these would-be bank robbers would be sentenced to life in prison for it.
Reb teaches you how not to rob a bank (but if you do, ask if any bystanders have high blood pressure). This is United States v. Whitfield (2015).
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REPORT: FELONY MURDER—An On-Ramp for Extreme Sentencing (updated May 2024): https://www.sentencingproject.org/app/uploads/2024/05/Felony-Murder-An-On-Ramp-for-Extreme-Sentencing.pdf
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00:00 - Intro
01:11 - CASE BEGINS.
01:30 - THE FACTS.
06:38 - FIRST DEGREE MURDER?!
12:33 - REAL CASES: FELONY MURDER PRISONERS.
19:37 - SO, THIS POLICY IS A NIGHTMARE?
24:11 - LARRY’S LIFE SENTENCE (SIKE?).
25:44 - Did Mary Parnell "accompany" Larry Whitfield?
27:19 - U.S. SUPREME COURT DECISION.
31:37 - Reb's Rebuttal
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