United States Seventh Circuit

Conviction for making materially false statements in reports that defendant was required to file under the Clean Water Act is affirmed where: 1) evidence of uncharged offenses could not be feasibly separated out from evidence for the charged offenses; 2) the judge's language in a jury instruction was a correct interpretation of a permit, and the meaning of the permit presented an issue of law that the judge was entitled to determine; and 3) the judge did not abuse his discretion in imposing a prison sentence on defendant.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/15/2009
• Published 01/15/2009

Judges

• POSNER, Circuit Judge., Before:  POSNER, ROVNER, and EVANS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Steven D. DeBrota (submitted), Office of the United States Attorney, Indianapolis, IN, for Plaintiff-Appellee., Steven L. Blakely (submitted), Acton & Snyder, Danville, IL, for Defendants-Appellants.