So a guy I know robbed 3 banks. What kind of time is he looking at?

LardAss said:
Federal, he will get a PSR that pegs him in a guideline range.
Bank robbery with violent priors, he's going to peg very, very high and barring substantial assistance, would be highly unlikely to engender favor from the sentencing judge.
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Whats a PSR?
 
weich said:
27 states have 3 strikes laws:



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-strikes_law#Enactment_by_states
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North Dakota isn't automatically 3 strikes. If they do decide to charge someone under the habitual offender law it depends on what level of felonies, Class A is life, B is 20 years, C is 10 years.
About the only things they add the habitual to is people that get caught with meth labs. A local guy got plead to probation for his 6th meth lab, he always narced and avoided jail time, but the last time they charged him with the habitual and got 40 years.
 
You hang around good company.
You think this is a GAME!?

Fucking WU TANG!
 
Imendoza said:
Whats a PSR?
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Pre-sentence report.
Apparently they're going all gangsta nowdays and calling it a "PSIR"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presentence_investigation_report

It is singular in determining where he stands, when he gets in front of the judge.
He is going to prison, no doubt, and he's going to a higher security classification, no doubt, but errors on a PSR could be the difference in years and years against his release date, not to mention how he does his time, when he's ultimately eligible to transfer to a low or a FPC, etc.

BOP designates on the basis of PSR and they also weigh it against security classification, even years and years- decades and decades- after its used in its intended sentencing role. For as shitty as his situation is and in spite of the fact that the notion of "easy, white collar" prison is a myth, it's a WORLD of difference doing time at a USP High full of hard-core, antisocial motherfuckers (which your friend very well may be) versus doing it at a low or FPC with tax cheats, non-violent drug offenders and child-porn possessors (who are ineligible for FPC placement, but are standard at lows). With good behavior, you're usually eligible for FPC placement with 10 years or less to go on your sentence.

Source: Immediate family who BTDT, but verify it if you want. Its all accurate.
 
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Seeing as how this is a guessing game i'm going to throw my hat into the ring and say he's going to serve exactly.

16 years 4 months and 12 days.
 
If I have to guess, he'd be getting a sentence of somewhere between 15-20 years.
 
Imendoza said:
Being a dumbass? I dont know. People rarely get caught after their first robbery. He just kept going and going.
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OK. Just curious if it was anything specific. Man robbing a bank gets you want a few k at most? Just not worth it.
 
Crazy how bank robbers serve more time than pedophiles/rapists.
 
25 to life for each. Once you fuck with a bank, which are usually federally insured, it becomes a federal case.

Edit: any robbery is considered a violent offense, so minimum of 85% of sentence and no "good time" available.

By the way, I had to know the bank stuff to be the armed guard for them years ago, and I know the 85% stuff for working department of corrections for the last year.
 
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With those priors? Probably life in prison... if he does get the possibility of parole, he'll be an old man by the time he's a free man again.
 
depend..was it armed robbery?

2. any sentence can be downgraded by taking a plea with the prosecutor

3. 20-30 if found guilty or 10-15 if accepting guilt
 
RoninJin said:
depend..was it armed robbery?

2. any sentence can be downgraded by taking a plea with the prosecutor

3. 20-30 if found guilty or 10-15 if accepting guilt
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Bank robbery is federal and therefore carries a minimum mandatory. You can steal a dollar from a bank and get a minimum 25yrs.
 
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