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U.S. v. BUCKNER

No. 95-3681.

91 F.3d 34 (1996)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Kent L. BUCKNER, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided July 23, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas Edward Leggans (argued), Office of the U.S. Atty., Criminal Div., Fairview Heights, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Dorothy D. Danforth (argued), William P. Grant, Margulis & Grant, St. Louis, MO, for Defendant-Appellee.

Before POSNER, Chief Judge, and ROVNER and EVANS, Circuit Judges.

TERENCE T. EVANS, Circuit Judge.

A motion in limine, requiring a ruling on the morning of the scheduled start of a jury trial, can wreak havoc in a district court. It did in this case, and as it turned out, the trial was jettisoned. So today we consider an evidentiary ruling made the morning Kent Buckner and a codefendant, Kevin Holt, were set to face a jury on an indictment charging that they conspired with James Salamanca to knowingly transfer a machine gun in violation...

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