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PAGE v. U.S.

No. 88-1708.

884 F.2d 300 (1989)

Eldon L. PAGE, Petitioner-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided September 1, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eldon L. Page, Oxford, Wis., pro se.

R. Jeffrey Wagner, Nathan A. Fishbach, Asst. U.S. Attys., John E. Fryatt, U.S. Atty., Office of the U.S. Atty., Milwaukee, Wis., for U.S.

Before CUMMINGS, POSNER, and EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judges.

EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.

Students of strategy and bargaining cut their teeth on the game of Prisoners' Dilemma. Two prisoners, unable to confer with one another, must decide whether to take the prosecutor's offer: confess, inculpate the other, and serve a year in jail, or keep silent and serve five years. If the prisoners could make a (binding) bargain with each other, they would keep silent and both would go free. But they can't communicate, and each fears that...

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