United States Seventh Circuit

A sentence for obstruction of justice is affirmed as the sentencing judge properly considered the applicable statutory factors, and sentencing the defendant at the bottom of the guidelines range was an exercise of lenity, and not unreasonable, since the defendant had committed a serious breach of the public trust exacerbated by his threatening a witness.

Appellate Information

• Argued 07/11/2007
• Decided 08/09/2007
• Published 08/09/2007

Judges

• POSNER, Circuit Judge., Before POSNER, COFFEY, and SYKES, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Manish Shah (argued), Office of the United States Attorney, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellee., Alexander M. Salerno (argued), Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellant.