U.S. v. WAHI

No. 15-2094.

850 F.3d 296 (2017)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Rakesh WAHI, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided March 2, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Greggory R. Walters , Attorney, Office of the United States Attorney, Peoria, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Eamon P. Joyce , Attorney, Sidley Austin LLP, New York, NY, Mark D. Taticchi , Attorney, 3G, Brooklyn, NY, for Defendant-Appellant.

Before Bauer, Flaum, and Sykes, Circuit Judges.


Circuit precedent holds that a district court has inherent authority to reopen a closed criminal case to consider a request to expunge the judicial record based on an equitable balancing test that weighs the public and private interests at stake. See United States v. Flowers, 389 F.3d 737

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