United States Seventh Circuit

Instructing the jury that a "crime is not complete until a successful escape is made" was not a constitutionally impermissible enlargement of the scope of the Wisconsin felony murder statute.

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/02/2000
• Decided 09/05/2001
• Published 09/05/2001

Judges

• RIPPLE, Circuit Judge., Before WOOD, JR., RIPPLE and ROVNER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• John T. Wasielewski (argued), Wasielewski & Erickson, Milwaukee, WI, for Petitioner-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Daniel J. O'Brien (argued), James E. Doyle, Office of the Atty. Gen., Wisconsin Dept. of Justice, Madison, WI, for Respondent-Appellee.