United States Seventh Circuit

Where defendant was charged with agreeing to transfer and possess a forged immigration form, a conviction and sentence for conspiracy must be reversed, because a seller and a buyer do not compose a "group" in the sense relevant to conspiracy law.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/02/2002
• Decided 01/22/2003
• Published 01/22/2003

Judges

• POSNER, Circuit Judge., Before BAUER, POSNER, and ROVNER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Ruth Hennage (argued), Office of U.S. Attorney, South Bend, IN, for Plaintiff-Appellee., H. Jay Stevens (argued), Indiana Federal Community Defenders, Inc., South Bend, IN, for Defendant-Appellant.