U.S. v. BERNDT

No. 07-2928.

530 F.3d 553 (2008)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Joseph BERNDT, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided June 19, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald J. Schmid (argued), Office of the United States Attorney, South Bend, IN, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

William J. Cohen (argued), Elkhart, IN, for Defendant-Appellant.

Before CUDAHY, POSNER and EVANS, Circuit Judges.


CUDAHY, Circuit Judge.

Joseph Berndt lived in the basement of his parents' South Bend, Indiana home for over 30 years. In 2006, his parents decided to sell their home and, in June of that year, Berndt left South Bend and went to live in South Dakota. When the family began to clean up the house in early August to get it ready for sale, they made an unsettling discovery. It seems that Berndt was something of a pack rat. But in addition to the usual accumulations of...

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