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- Title: Fryer v. United States
- Author : Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals
- Release Date : January 02, 2001
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 58 KB
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Argued September 28, 2000 On October 11, 1991, Eddie Fryer was convicted by a jury on three counts of bank robbery and two counts for the use of a firearm during the commission of a violent felony. The charges were based on three separate armed bank robberies. On direct appeal, Fryer's sentence and conviction were affirmed by this court in United States v. Fryer, 974 F.2d 813 (7th Cir. 1992), cert. denied, 508 U.S. 941 (1993). On June 24, 1996, Fryer filed a pro se motion pursuant to 28 U.S.C. sec. 2255 to vacate his conviction on the grounds of ineffective assistance of counsel at trial. On April 25, 1997, Fryer filed an amendment to his sec. 2255 motion raising the applicability of Old Chief v. United States, 519 U.S. 174 (1997), to his case as a separate issue. The district court appointed counsel for Fryer and ultimately denied Fryer's motion. Fryer appealed the district court's denial and filed a petition for a certificate of appealability. The district court granted Fryer's certificate on one issue only, whether Old Chief should apply to the admission of Fryer's prior felony conviction which was presented at trial. Fryer then filed in this court a motion for enlargement of the issues in the certificate of appealability. We denied the motion in an order issued on November 30, 1999. We now hold that Old Chief does not apply and affirm the denial of Fryer's habeas petition. I. Background A detailed presentation of the facts of Fryer's case may be found in Fryer, 974 F.2d at 814-18. Due to the limited nature of this inquiry, we recount only the facts which are relevant to the issue in this opinion. Fryer was charged with three counts of bank robbery with the use of a dangerous weapon in violation of 18 U.S.C. sec.sec. 2113(a) and (d), three counts for the use of a weapon during and in relation to the commission of a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. sec. 924(c), and a seventh count for possession of a firearm by a felon in violation of 18 U.S.C. sec. 922(g). He was found guilty on three bank robbery counts and two counts for the use of a weapon during two of the bank robberies.