United States Seventh Circuit

Conviction and sentence on explosives charges are affirmed over defendant's arguments that: 1) the cumulative effect of erroneous rulings by the district court tainted the jury; and 2) application of the 30-year mandatory consecutive sentence for using a pipe bomb constituted cruel and unusual punishment and violated double jeopardy.

Appellate Information

• Argued 01/08/2007
• Decided 09/17/2007
• Published 09/17/2007

Judges

• ROVNER, Circuit Judge., Before EASTERBROOK, Chief Judge, and ROVNER and WOOD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• April M. Perry (argued), Office of the United States Attorney, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellee., Gary L. Starkman, Thomas B. Fitzgibbon (argued), McGuireWoods, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellant.