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U.S. v. BUCKNER

No. 86-3128.

830 F.2d 102 (1987)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. James C. BUCKNER, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided October 1, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Andrew B. Spiegel, Chicago, Ill., for defendant-appellant.

Stephen P. Sinnott, Victoria J. Peters, Asst. U.S. Attys. (Anton R. Valukas, U.S. Atty.), Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before FLAUM, EASTERBROOK and KANNE, Circuit Judges.

EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.

The prosecutor launched a preemptive strike in this criminal prosecution of a tax protester. The district court granted the prosecutor's request for an order forbidding the defense to bring "to the attention of the jury by argument or evidence any matters relating to" five enumerated issues:

That the Sixteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was improperly ratified and therefore never came into being; That wages are...

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