United States Seventh Circuit

Petition for a writ of mandamus ordering the district court to proceed with a hearing concerning a defendant's guilty plea is granted where the district court's interrogatory to the prosecution requesting details about the information that the prosecution expected to obtain from the defendant was a judicial effort to supervise the prosecution's process of reaching a decision whether to pursue sentencing reductions, and that effort intruded impermissibly into the activities of the Executive Branch of government.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/01/2007
• Published 10/01/2007

Judges

• EASTERBROOK, Chief Judge., Before EASTERBROOK, Chief Judge, and POSNER and RIPPLE, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Gary E. Milone, Sr., Flora, IL, for Party-in-Interest.


• For Appellees:
  
• Thomas Edward Leggans, Office of the United States Attorney, Benton, IL, for Petitioner-Respondent.