Court Opinion

ID: 9469713
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 02:47:08.125208+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:41:31.441714
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PHILLIPS, Senior Circuit Judge
(concurring in result).
I concur reluctantly, only because our panel is bound by the Supreme Court and Sixth Circuit precedents cited in the majority opinion.
If we were writing on a clean slate, I would vote to affirm the consecutive sentences. Appellant kidnapped Burley Donald Lockridge at his home, leaving Mrs. *436Lockridge and their two children in the custody of a confederate. This was a violation of 28 U.S.C. § 2113(e) which continued until appellant left Mr. Lockridge tied to a tree in a public park after the robbery was complete. Appellant also committed an armed robbery of a federally insured bank. This was a violation of 28 U.S.C. § 2113(d).
I would prefer to affirm the district court, but concur in the majority opinion only because of the binding precedents set forth therein.