United States Seventh Circuit

Activists convicted for disabling a Navy facility could not use argument that counsel advised them that a statute could not be applied to them as a defense, in a case involving the clearly willful destruction of property; no error in excluding evidence of US defense policy and moral disapproval of law, which was clearly unrelated to charges.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/26/2002
• Published 04/26/2002

Judges

• POSNER, Circuit Judge., Before POSNER, EASTERBROOK, and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• John W. Vaudreuil (submitted), Office of U.S. Attorney, Madison, WI, for U.S., Margaret Danielson (submitted), Madison, WI, for Bonnie L. Urfer., John C. Bachman (submitted), Eau Claire, WI, for Michael R. Sprong.