CASTILLO v. U.S.

No. 94-1040.

34 F.3d 443 (1994)

Serafin CASTILLO, Petitioner-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided August 29, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frederick F. Cohn (argued), Chicago, IL, for petitioner-appellant.

Ronald S. Safer, Debra Riggs Bonamici (argued), Office of the U.S. Atty., Crim. Div., Barry R. Elden, Asst. U.S. Atty., Crim. Receiving, Appellate Div., Chicago, IL, for respondent-appellee.

Before POSNER, Chief Judge, and BAUER and KANNE, Circuit Judges.


POSNER, Chief Judge.

The defendant was convicted of extortion, and we affirmed his conviction, in the process rejecting, though with misgivings, the contention that he had not made an effective waiver of his right to be represented by a different lawyer from his codefendant. 965 F.2d 238, 240-43 (7th Cir.1992). Castillo, our defendant, had assisted the codefendant, Grenados, in a blackmail...

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