United States Seventh Circuit

Conviction and sentencing of a defendant for bribery is affirmed where: 1) district court's error in allowing the government to present summary charts to the jury was harmless error in that it did not have a substantial and injurious effect on the jury's verdict; 2) the evidence presented at trial was sufficient to find defendant guilty of bribery beyond a reasonable doubt; and 3) district court did not commit clear error in calculating the amount of loss in determining defendant's offense level.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/08/2009
• Decided 08/25/2009
• Published 08/25/2009

Judges

• WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge., Before EASTERBROOK, Chief Judge, and KANNE and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Stephen Rotter (argued), Office of the United States Attorney, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellee., Susan M. Pavlow, Attorney, Steven J. Weinberg, Attorney (argued), Weinberg & Rizzi, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellant.