1NEWARK, NJ – A federal judge in New Jersey has denied a motion for reconsideration filed by Joseph McAdams , who sought to challenge his sentencing classification as a career offender stemming from a series of bank robberies and related convictions.

The ruling, issued by U.S. District Judge Edward S. Kiel, rejected McAdams’s latest bid to revisit prior court decisions that upheld his 2010 sentence. The court also denied his request to supplement the motion and declined to issue a certificate of appealability.

McAdams was sentenced in 2010 to a total of 319 months in prison after pleading guilty to ten counts of bank robbery and one count of brandishing a loaded firearm during a crime of violence. His sentencing was based in part on a determination that he qualified as a career offe

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