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WRIGHT v. DeARMOND

Nos. 91-3375, 91-3376, 91-3377 and 91-3378.

977 F.2d 339 (1992)

Wendell WRIGHT, Raymond T. Randall, Ernie Cox, and Jerome D. Brown, Petitioners-Appellants, v. Craig DeARMOND, Sued as State's Attorney of Vermillion County, Roland Burris, Sued as Attorney General of the State of Illinois, Paul C. Komada, Sued as Circuit Judge of the Fifth Judicial Circuit of Illinois, et al., Respondents-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided October 9, 1992.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied November 30, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Matthias A. Lydon (argued), Jayne Carr Thompson, Lydon & Griffin, Chicago, Ill., Everett Laury, Hutton, Laury, Hesser & Lietz, M. Eugene Wright, Wright Law Offices, Danville, Ill., for petitioners-appellants.

Craig DeArmond (argued), pro se.

Roland W. Burris, pro se.

Douglas K. Smith, Asst. Atty. Gen., Office of Atty. Gen., Criminal Appeals Div., Springfield, Ill., for respondents-appellees Roland W. Burris and Paul C. Komada.

Craig H. DeArmond, States Atty. Vermilion County, Danville, Ill., for respondent-appellee Vermilion County, Ill.

Before BAUER, Chief Judge, RIPPLE, Circuit Judge, and ESCHBACH, Senior Circuit Judge.

Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied November 30, 1992.

RIPPLE, Circuit Judge.

The City of Danville, Illinois, and its Commissioners were named defendants in a voting rights suit brought by a group of minority Danville citizens. In the process of settling this suit, the Commissioners secured personal benefits. The Commissioners and the Danville Corporation Counsel were later convicted of conspiracy to violate state and local conflict-of-interest laws. The...

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