United States of America, Plaintiff-Appellee-Cross-Appellant v. Keith Wayne Quinn, Defendant-Appellant-Cross-Appellee

On September 5, 1991, a lone robber, wearing a dark mask and armed with a silver handgun, entered a bank in Berkeley, California, and took $24,625 from the bank’s teller drawers. The robbery was styled a “takeover” robbery by the police because the robber went behind the teller counter and removed the money himself. Two weeks later, on September 19, 1991, at 10:30 a.m., two men entered a San Leandro, California bank dressed in dark clothing and wearing face masks. One of these men was armed with a silver handgun. As in the Berkeley robbery, the man with the gun went behind the teller counter and removed cash — $17,842—from the teller drawers.

During interviews by the police after the Berkeley robbery, four of the tellers described the robber as being 5'6" to 5'8" tall and weighing 140 to 165 pounds. After the San Leandro robbery, witnesses described the robber with the gun as being 5'3" to 6' tall and weighing 160 to 180 pounds. The San Leandro bank’s customer service manager described the robber as being 5'9" tall, and weighing 170-175 pounds.

A witness on the street outside the San Leandro bank saw the robbers rolling up ski masks as they left the bank. The witness was…