United States Seventh Circuit

Convictions for drug and firearms offenses is affirmed, and sentence vacated with directions to impose a life term, where: 1) the good-faith exception applied, and evidence found in a police search was admissible, where defendant did not offer sufficient evidence to establish any intentional or reckless falsehood or omission in the affidavit underlying the search warrant; 2) a witness was properly excluded from testifying as defendant intended only to make the witness appear more culpable by inducing him to exercise his right against self-incrimination in front of the jury; 3) testimony of a second witness was properly excluded as irrelevant; and 4) defendant's prior federal conviction as a juvenile should have been considered during sentencing.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/22/2008
• Published 07/22/2008

Judges

• ROVNER, Circuit Judge., Before POSNER, RIPPLE, and ROVNER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Matthias D. Onderak (argued), Office of the United States Attorney, Evansville, IN, for Plaintiff-Appellee, Cross-Appellant., James A. Earhart (argued), Louisville, KY, for Defendant-Appellant, Cross-Appellee.