UNITED STATES v. SENAK

No. 72-1431.

477 F.2d 304 (1973)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Nick SENAK, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided April 24, 1973.

Rehearing Denied June 5, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David L. Norman, Asst. Atty. Gen., Robert A. Murphy, Atty., Civil Rights Division, Department of Justice, Washington, William C. Lee, U. S. Atty., Fort Wayne, Ind., for plaintiff-appellant.

Max Cohen, Gary, Ind., for defendant-appellee.

Before FAIRCHILD, PELL, and SPRECHER, Circuit Judges.


PELL, Circuit Judge.

In February 1972, a federal grand jury returned a five-count indictment against Nick Senak, a public defender for Lake County, Indiana. The indictment charged that Senak, while acting under color of law, "willfully and unlawfully exacted and took" money from various persons, thereby willfully depriving those persons of their right under the Fourteenth Amendment not to be deprived of property without due process of law, in violation of 18 U.S.C...

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