U.S. v. PETITJEAN

No. 88-1886.

883 F.2d 1341 (1989)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Leonard PETITJEAN, Jr., Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided September 5, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steven Shobat, Asst. U.S. Atty., Anton R. Valukas, U.S. Atty., Office of the U.S. Atty., David J. Stetler, Howard M. Pearl, James R. Ferguson, and Zaldwaynaka L. Scott, Asst. U.S. Attys., Office of the U.S. Atty., Criminal Receiving, Appellate Div., Chicago, Ill., for U.S.

George P. Lynch, Weiss & Associates, Chicago, Ill., for defendant-appellant.

Before CUMMINGS and KANNE, Circuit Judges, and GRANT, Senior District Judge.


KANNE, Circuit Judge.

Defendant-appellant, Leonard Petitjean, Jr., appeals his conviction of extortion and two federal offenses relating to firearms. He argues that one count of his indictment was duplicitous, that the counts in the indictment of which he was convicted were not supported by sufficient evidence, that the district court improperly limited cross-examination of government witnesses and improperly excluded a tape-recording presented by the defense under...

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