United States Seventh Circuit

The government's challenge to defendant's lenient sentence for counterfeiting is denied where defendant's altered version of a $100 bill was not "falsely made or manufactured in its entirety" since it was not made with genuine currency paper.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/08/2004
• Published 10/08/2004

Judges

• EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge., Before EASTERBROOK, WOOD, and EVANS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Robert L. Simpkins (argued), Office of the United States Attorney, Civil Division, Fairview Heights, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Melissa A. Day (argued), Office of the Federal Public Defender, Benton, IL, for Defendant-Appellee.