United States Seventh Circuit

Defendant's conviction for illegal possession of a gun is affirmed. Although the search warrant lacked a particular description of the things to be found, the "inevitable discovery" doctrine allowed the introduction of the evidence discovered in the search.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/17/2008
• Decided 01/22/2009
• Published 01/22/2009

Judges

• POSNER, Circuit Judge., Before BAUER, POSNER, and MANION, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• John E. Sims, Chicago, IL, pro se.


• For Appellees:
  
• Timothy A. Bass, Office of the United States Attorney, Springfield, IL, Eugene L. Miller (argued), Office of the United States Attorney, Urbana, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellee., Michael J. Zopf (argued), East Wing, Champaign, IL, for Defendant-Appellant.