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U.S. v. HIGHAM

No. 95-3055.

98 F.3d 285 (1996)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Burton HIGHAM, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided October 18, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Barry Rand Elden, Chief of Appeals, Office of the United States Attorney, Criminal Appellate Division, Julia Getzels (argued), Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Kevin E. Milner (argued), Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellant.

Before CUMMINGS, EASTERBROOK, and ROVNER, Circuit Judges.

ILANA DIAMOND ROVNER, Circuit Judge.

Burton Higham hired someone he believed to be a hitman (actually, an undercover FBI agent) to kill his business partner, hoping to collect on a life insurance policy. A jury convicted him on charges that he used the mail in the commission of a murder-for-hire scheme (18 U.S.C. § 1958(a)) and committed mail fraud (18 U.S.C. § 1341). The district judge ordered him to serve a prison term of 120 months on the murder-for-hire...

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