United States Seventh Circuit

Enhancement of sentence after plea of guilty to counterfeiting was proper under U.S.S.G. section 2B5.1(b)(2) after the court determined that bills produced by appellant were not obvious forgeries; arguments that appellant was not a large-scale producer, and that counterfeiting method was unsophisticated, did not mitigate against enhancement.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/21/2002
• Decided 04/19/2002
• Published 04/19/2002

Judges

• WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge., Before FLAUM, Chief Judge, and WOOD, JR., and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Celia Meza-Utreras (argued), Office of the U.S. Atty., Crim. Div., Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellee., Douglas E. Whitney (argued), Office of the Fed. Def. Program, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellant.