United States Seventh Circuit

Conviction and sentence for bankruptcy fraud and concealing assets are affirmed where: 1) the district court properly excluded evidence of a settlement between defendant and his former attorney concerning the attorney's advice to engage in the fraudulent conduct; and 2) district judges are free to make findings of fact that influence sentences, provided that the sentence is constrained by the statutory maximum for each crime.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/09/2007
• Decided 05/03/2007
• Published 05/03/2007

Judges

• EASTERBROOK, Chief Judge., Before EASTERBROOK, Chief Judge, and KANNE and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Kathryn Komp (argued), Department of Justice Office of the Solicitor General, Washington, DC, for Plaintiff-Appellee., Abner J. Mikva, Daniel Burstein (Law Student), University of Chicago Center for Studies in Criminal Justice, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellant.