U.S. v. PEREZ

No. 93-3003.

43 F.3d 1131 (1994)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Luis A. PEREZ, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided December 22, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Timothy O'Shea (argued), Office of U.S. Atty., Madison, WI, for plaintiff-appellee.

Margaret Danielson (argued), Madison, WI, for defendant-appellant.

Before BAUER, FLAUM and RIPPLE, Circuit Judges.


RIPPLE, Circuit Judge.

On the evening of January 13, 1993, Luis Perez, an inmate at the Federal Correctional Institution at Oxford, Wisconsin (FCI-Oxford), slashed the throat of his cellmate Faustino Calderon-Abeja ("Calderon"). Mr. Perez was convicted by a jury of assault with intent to commit murder and of possession of a prohibited object intended as a weapon. The district court sentenced Mr. Perez to twenty years of imprisonment on count I and a consecutive five...

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