United States Seventh Circuit

Even though a requested jury instruction is an accurate statement of the law and warranted by the evidence, a judge may properly refuse to give the instruction where other instructions already apprised the jury of the principle at issue.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/27/2001
• Decided 10/04/2001
• Published 10/04/2001

Judges

• RIPPLE, Circuit Judge., Before COFFEY, RIPPLE and EVANS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Frances C. Hulin,Timothy A Bass (argued), Office of the U.S. Atty., Springfield, IL, for United States of America., David B. Mote (argued), Office of the Fed. Pub. Def., Springfield, IL, for David Scott., Patrick T. Timoney, Springfield, IL, Ronald E. Jenkins (argued), Jenkins & Kling, Clayton, MO, for Carl Bucholz., Ronald E. Jenkins (argued), Jenkins & Kling, Clayton, MO, for Gregory Sumpter.