on April 20 and 21, 1993.  At trial, Rembert identified Eskridge as the man who robbed him.  Two other witnesses, Brenett Montgomery and Gail Harris, testified that immediately before Rembert was robbed, two men robbed them and a third individual at gunpoint near the Subs N'Stuff restaurant.  Montgomery and Harris positively identified Eskridge as the man who brandished a gun during the robbery.  Montgomery testified that after she and her companions were robbed, she saw the two robbers approach a young man wearing a leather jacket leaving the Subs N'Stuff restaurant.  She observed the men cut this man off as he was heading to his car.  Montgomery and her two companions then drove away, but soon returned to look for some moneyone of them had dropped in the street.  Montgomery saw the young man standing in the street without his coat or car.  Montgomery also observed the car with two people sitting in it.  Gail Harris told Montgomery that she recognized one of the men as "Dollar Bill," who was the father of her sister's child.  Harris identified Eskridge from a photo spread shortly after the robbery and from an in-person lineup.  At trial, Harris identified Eskridge as Dollar Bill, the father of her sister's child.


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Neither defendant testified.  However, over Eskridge's objection, the government introduced the written confession of Pointer which implicated both Pointer and Eskridge, but eliminated any direct reference to Eskridge by replacing Eskridge's name with the word "another."  