U.S. v. MYERS

No. 88-2349.

892 F.2d 642 (1990)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Kellie J. MYERS, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided January 4, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dennis J. Dimsey, Thomas E. Chandler, Dept. of Justice, Civ. Rights Div., Appellate Section, Daniel P. Butler, Dept. of Justice, Civ. Rights Div., Washington, D.C., for plaintiff-appellee.

John A. Walters, Griffith, Ind., F. Allen Tew, Jr., Indianapolis, Ind., for defendant-appellant.

Kellie J. Myers, pro se.

Before CUDAHY, POSNER, and KANNE, Circuit Judges.


POSNER, Circuit Judge.

In 1988 a jury convicted Kellie Myers of conspiracy to interfere with the federal right (conferred by 42 U.S.C. § 3631(a)) to occupy a home without regard to one's race, 18 U.S.C. § 241, and of related offenses. The judge sentenced her to four years in prison.

Four years earlier, the car of a black couple who had just bought a home in Hobart, Indiana had been torched while parked outside the couple's home. Kellie Myers lived...

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