U.S. v. LEVINSON

No. 94-3660.

56 F.3d 780 (1995)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Alan LEVINSON, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided May 30, 1995.

Rehearing and Suggestion for Rehearing Denied July 12, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Barry Rand Elden, Asst. U.S. Atty. and Jeanne Witherspoon (argued), Office of the U.S. Atty., Crim. Receiving, Appellate Div., Chicago, IL, for plaintiff-appellee.

William J. Stevens (argued) and Barry D. Sheppard, Chicago, IL, for defendant-appellant.

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


Rehearing and Suggestion for Rehearing En Banc Denied July 12, 1995.

POSNER, Chief Judge.

Alan Levinson pleaded guilty to one count of mail fraud (18 U.S.C. § 1341) and was sentenced to 12 months in prison and fined $20,000. His brief on appeal challenges the sentence on two grounds, but at oral argument his counsel abandoned the second, which was that the district judge should have explained why she was sentencing Levinson to 12 months in prison rather...

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