United States Seventh Circuit

Sentence for bank robbery is affirmed where defendant made no showing in his motion for reconsideration of sentence that his HIV infection had in any way affected his mental capacity at the time of the offense, and it would therefore have been an abuse of discretion for the sentencing court to grant his request for a mental-health evaluation.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/05/2008
• Published 11/05/2008

Judges

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

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Debra Riggs Bonamici (argued), Office of the United States Attorney, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellee., Richard H. Parsons, Office of the Federal Public Defender, Peoria, IL, A. Brian Threlkeld (argued), Office of the Federal Public Defender, Urbana, IL, for Defendant-Appellant.