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BETTS v. U.S.

No. 91-3118.

10 F.3d 1278 (1993)

John A. BETTS, Petitioner-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided November 29, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kenneth A. Kozel (argued), LaSalle, IL, for petitioner-appellant.

Thomas E. Karmgard, Frances C. Hulin, Asst. U.S. Attys., Danville, IL, Colin S. Bruce, Asst. U.S. Atty. (argued), Edith C. Harris, Springfield, IL, for respondent-appellee.

Before CUDAHY and ROVNER, Circuit Judges, and ESCHBACH, Senior Circuit Judge.

ILANA DIAMOND ROVNER, Circuit Judge.

Attorney John Betts served fifteen days in jail on a criminal contempt conviction. We reversed his conviction and vacated the sentence, concluding that the court order he purportedly had transgressed was not sufficiently specific to support a conviction for contempt. In re Betts, 927 F.2d 983 (7th Cir.1991). Betts then petitioned the district court for a certificate of innocence, the statutory...

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