United States Seventh Circuit

Defendant's conviction and sentence for obstruction of correspondence are affirmed where the district court did not abuse its discretion in refusing to accept defendant's guilty plea since the district court had adequate grounds to doubt that defendant had acted with the -design to obstruct.-

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/29/2005
• Published 11/29/2005

Judges

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

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Toi Denise Houston (argued), Office of the United States Attorney, Hammond, IN, for Plaintiff-Appellee., John Maksimovich (argued), Highland, IN, for Defendant-Appellant.