U.S. v. ROVETUSO

No. 86-2465.

840 F.2d 363 (1987)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Sam ROVETUSO, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided July 13, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kenneth N. Flaxman, Chicago, Ill., for defendant-appellant.

James P. Fleissner, Asst. U.S. Atty., Anton R. Valukas, U.S. Atty., Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before CUMMINGS, CUDAHY and EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judges.


CUMMINGS, Circuit Judge.

Defendant was the unlucky subject of three separate criminal prosecutions in 1983 in the courtrooms of three different district court judges. The chronological sequence of those prosecutions engendered the present controversy and the course of events must therefore be reviewed in some detail.

On September 27, 1983, a jury found the defendant guilty of attempting to murder a federal witness...

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