U.S. v. ZENDELI

Nos. 98-3132, 98-3348.

180 F.3d 879 (1999)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, Cross-Appellant, v. Besim ZENDELI, Defendant-Appellant, Cross-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided June 17, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lawrence S. Beaumont, Office of the United States Attorney, Urbana Division, Urbana, IL, Rodger A. Heaton (argued), Office of the United States Attorney, Springfield, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellee in No. 98-3132.

Rodger A. Heaton (argued), Office of the United States Attorney, Springfield, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant in No. 98-3348.

Ronald E. Halliday (argued), Parker & Halliday, Peoria, IL, for Besim Zendeli.

Before WOOD, Jr., RIPPLE, and KANNE, Circuit Judges.


HARLINGTON WOOD, Jr., Circuit Judge.

Well, certainly the Defendant's sentence is out of whack to what that fellow got, and I am disturbed by that. . . . [Both the government and the defendant will have the] right to appeal and then you can make the decisions, but I am making this one . . . I feel more comfortable with a 10-year sentence [rather] than a 17-year sentence. . . . The great disproportionality of the sentence of the co-defendants would make a 17-year sentence...

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