Opinion ID: 73837
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Text: This is an appeal from a jury verdict on a one-count indictment charging Defendant Pistone, and two co-defendants, Sean Michael Kirlew and Nicholas Andrew King, with violating 18 U.S.C. § 1951 by combining, conspiring, confederating and agreeing to rob an armored car by means of actual and threatened force, violence, and fear of injury to the armored car guards. His codefendants entered guilty pleas, received 5K1.1 certificates, and each was sentenced to thirty (30) months imprisonment and three years of supervised release. The district judge denied Pistone’s motion for a new trial, his two motions for judgment of acquittal notwithstanding the verdict, and his renewed motion for judgment of acquittal, and then sentenced Pistone within the guidelines to 112 months imprisonment and three years of supervised release. Pistone appeals the denial of his motions and the district judge’s increase of his offense level by two levels, under U.S.S.G. § 2B3,1(b)(1), because the object of the offense was to take the property of a financial institution. 2