U.S. v. DVORAK

No. 96-2265.

115 F.3d 1339 (1997)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. James E. DVORAK, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided June 17, 1997.

As Amended August 7, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Barry Rand Elden, Chief of Appeals, Office of the United States Attorney, Criminal Appellate Division, Gil M. Soffer (argued), Office of the United States Attorney, Chicago, IL, for plaintiff-appellee.

Matthias A. Lydon (argued), Brian E. Neuffer, Winston & Strawn, Chicago, IL, for defendant-appellant.

Before POSNER, Chief Judge, and COFFEY and MANION, Circuit Judges.


COFFEY, Circuit Judge.

In April 1994, defendant-appellant James Dvorak (Dvorak) pleaded guilty to accepting bribes and tax evasion while serving as Undersheriff of Cook County, Illinois from 1987 through 1989. Dvorak was sentenced on April 28, 1994 to forty-one months' incarceration. He appealed his sentence, and we affirmed.1

Dvorak at the time of sentencing claimed that he was then admitting all of the illegal conduct in which...

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