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7th Circuit Digest

Aug 8, 2017

Fourth Amendment Violation – Voting Registration

This is a case of wait‐and‐hurry‐up, rather than its more familiar cousin, hurry‐up‐and‐wait.

Aug 8, 2017

Abuse of Discretion

Plaintiff‐appellee Peter Koehn filed suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging that Defendants‐appellants Lauri Tobias and Margaret Segerston (Defendants), his former employers, unlawfully retaliated against him for exercising his First Amendment rights.

Aug 8, 2017

Sentencing Guidelines

Douglas Jackson appeals following a jury trial at which he was convicted of three counts of transporting a minor in interstate commerce with the intent that she engage in illegal sexual activity, see 18 U.S.C. § 2423(a), three counts of sex trafficking of a minor, see 18 U.S.C. § 1591(a), and one count of possessing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence (sex trafficking of a minor), se[...]

Aug 8, 2017

Ineffective Assistance of Counsel and Jury Instructions

Although in this appeal Stephenson’s lawyer mounts a vigorous challenge to both the murder conviction and the death sentence, the first challenge fails.

Aug 8, 2017

Sufficiency of Evidence and Denial of Pre-trial Motions

The government brought charges related to a methamphetamine‐distribution conspiracy in southern Indiana against nineteen people, fifteen of whom pled guilty to at least one charge.

Aug 8, 2017

Suppression of Evidence

As Castetter saw things, Michigan’s police lack authority to monitor the location of a car in Indiana, no matter what the Michigan warrant says.

Aug 8, 2017

FLSA Collective Action

This appeal arises from a Fair Labor Standards Act collective action.

Aug 8, 2017

Postconviction Statue of Limitations – Equitable Tolling

During a drug deal that went bad, shots were fired and Gregory Jones was fatally wounded.

Aug 8, 2017

Plea Agreement – Competency

Anderson’s plea agreement prevented him from directly appealing his conviction and sentence, but he was nonetheless entitled to file a motion for collateral relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2255.

Aug 8, 2017

Sufficiency of Evidence

This case involves the unfortunate meeting of a hapless retired baseball player seeking to invest his earnings, a self‐described “con man” who claims to be reformed, persons running a Ponzi scheme, and a man who “had no business handling the investment finances of others.”

Aug 8, 2017

Sufficiency of Evidence

Michele Nischan alleges that she was fired from her job for filing a sexual‐harassment complaint.

Aug 8, 2017

Petition for Habeas Corpus Dismissed

Russell Prevatte was convicted of detonating a pipe bomb in an alley that destroyed property and resulted in the death of an innocent bystander, Emily Antkowicz, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 844(i).

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