United States Seventh Circuit

Convictions for robbing a postal truck are affirmed over defendants' arguments that: 1) a confession should have been suppressed as it was the product of coercion; 2) one defendant was prejudiced by the joinder of his felon-in-possession of ammunition charge with counts related to the robbery; 3) the defendants should not have been tried together; 4) events before trial should have prompted the court to request an evaluation of a defendant's competence; and 5) the district court should not have admitted evidence of earlier conspiracies.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/09/2007
• Decided 12/14/2007
• Published 12/14/2007

Judges

• WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge., Before BAUER, FLAUM, and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Mark Schneider (argued), Office of the United States Attorney, Chicago, IL, for U.S., Abner J. Mikva, H. Melissa (argued), University of Chicago Center for Studies in Criminal Justice, Gwendolyn D. Anderson, Chicago, IL, for Ross., Hannah V. Garst (argued), Chicago, IL, for Wilson.