U.S. v. KUIPERS

No. 94-2676.

49 F.3d 1254 (1995)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Scott KUIPERS, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided March 3, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Barry Rand Elden, Asst. U.S. Atty., Matthew C. Crowl (argued), Office of U.S. Atty., Crim. Receiving, Appellate Div., Chicago, IL, for plaintiff-appellee.

Thomas J. Organ, Raymond P. Cisco (argued), Cisco & Organ, Chicago, IL, John A. Lundquist, Lundquist & Associate, Bloomingdale, IL, for defendant-appellant.

Before FLAUM, EASTERBROOK, and MANION, Circuit Judges.


FLAUM, Circuit Judge.

The two thousand remaining Desert Bighorn Sheep, though (and perhaps because) highly prized by hunters, are a protected species in Mexico and the United States. Mexico offers a limited number of hunting permits for the sheep, but Scott Kuipers, a taxidermist, bypassed the process and bagged a sheep on his own. In the course of illegally transporting the hide and horns of the sheep to the United States, Kuipers presented phony documentation to...

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