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FACTS

At trial, defendant admitted robbing the banks but claimed he did so because the Aryan Brotherhood gang, with whom he associated while serving his first prison term, had threatened his life and that of his eldest daughter. Defendant had previously committed 10 robberies for the gang, was convicted of two of them, and was sent to federal prison where he continued to associate with the Aryan Brotherhood. While in prison, the gang asked defendant to have his family smuggle drugs into the prison and when he refused, the gang had someone stab him. About the same time, defendant‟s son disappeared; defendant believed his son was murdered by the gang. Defendant was released in 1992 and resided in Oregon. The Aryan Brotherhood found him and again forced him to rob banks for them. He was again convicted of robbery and sent to a prison where there were no members of the Aryan Brotherhood. He was released in 2006.

2 In 2009, defendant was living in a sober living home when his roommate introduced him to two men with the Aryan Brotherhood at a Narcotics Anonymous meeting. They told him they knew who he was, his ability to rob banks, and where his children lived. Because they threatened…