Court Opinion

ID: 9463034
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 22:56:38.18634+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:37:54.410166
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WINTER,' Circuit Judge
(dissenting):
I respectfully dissent.
Of the two circuits which have decided the question which this appeal presents, I find United States v. Evans, 446 F.2d 998 (8 Cir. 1971), the more persuasive authority *1249and I would follow it.* In accordance with the principle that the punishment should fit the crime, and since proof of knowledge of the amount stolen is not an element of the crime of knowing receipt of money or property stolen from a bank under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(c), I think that the range of penalties which may be imposed upon a convicted receiver should depend upon the sum he receives and not the amount stolen from the bank.
I would, therefore, vacate the sentence and remand the case for the defendant to be resentenced to pay a fine of not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.

 The Evans court considered and rejected United States v. Bolin, 423 F.2d 834 (9 Cir.), cert. denied, 398 U.S. 954, 90 S.Ct. 1882, 26 L.Ed.2d 297 (1970), on which the majority in the instant case relies.