PREVATTE v. MERLAK

No. 15-2378.

865 F.3d 894 (2017)

Russell PREVATTE, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Steven MERLAK, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided August 1, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jayvan E. Mitchell , Attorney, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, Chicago, IL, for Petitioner-Appellant.

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

Before Posner, Manion, and Williams, Circuit Judges.


Russell Prevatte was convicted of detonating a pipe bomb in an alley that destroyed property and resulted in the death of an innocent bystander, Emily Antkowicz, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 844(i). If the pipe bomb had not caused a death, at the time of his conviction, the maximum sentence Prevatte could have received...

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