United States Seventh Circuit

Conviction for knowingly transferring a machine gun is affirmed where: 1) district court properly rejected defendant's proposed jury instruction as the instruction was not an accurate statement of the law; 2) the evidence presented at trial was sufficient to sustain defendant's conviction; 3) the court properly rejected defendant's argument that the statutes defendant was convicted under were unconstitutionally vague; and 4) the court did not abuse its discretion in denying defendant's expert witness a sequestration exemption as defendant did not show that the presence of his expert in the courtroom during the testimony of the government's firearms expert was essential to the presentation of his case; and 5) the court did not abuse its discretion in denying defendant's motion to compel the production of evidence he had requested from the government.

Appellate Information

• Argued 01/22/2009
• Decided 05/01/2009
• Published 05/01/2009

Judges

• MANION, Circuit Judge., Before MANION and KANNE, Circuit Judges, and KENDALL, District Judge.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Gregory J. Haanstad, Attorney (argued), Michelle L. Jacobs, Attorney, Office of the United States Attorney, Milwaukee, WI, for Plaintiff-Appellee., Robert Sanders, Winston Salem, NC, William J. Olson, Herbert W. Titus (argued), William J. Olson, P.C., McLean, VA, for Defendant-Appellant.