United States Seventh Circuit

In a prosecution for, inter alia, violating 18 U.S.C. section 1959 by arranging and paying for a murder in Mexico, the dismissal of this charge is reversed where section 1959 applied to a murder in another nation designed to facilitate the operation of a criminal enterprise in the U.S.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/12/2010
• Decided 04/08/2010
• Published 04/08/2010

Judges

• EASTERBROOK, Chief Judge., Before EASTERBROOK, Chief Judge, HAMILTON, Circuit Judge, and SPRINGMANN, District Judge.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• William E. Ridgway, Office of The United States Attorney, argued, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Patrick W. Blegen (argued), Blegen & Garvey, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellee.