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UNITED STATES v. JOHNSON

Nos. 21-2730 and 21-2989.

42 F.4th 743 (2022)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Willie T. JOHNSON and Anessa R. Fierro, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided August 2, 2022.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Chadwick M. Elgersma, Attorney, Office of the United States Attorney, Madison, WI, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Nathan Otis, Attorney, Nicholson, Gansner & Otis, S.C., Madison, WI, for Defendant-Appellant.

Before Flaum, St. Eve, and Jackson-Akiwumi, Circuit Judges.

Defendants-appellants Willie Johnson and Anessa Fierro were charged with arson under federal law after they participated in riots in Madison, Wisconsin, following the shooting of a Black man by a white police officer in Kenosha, Wisconsin. They moved to dismiss the indictment against them, arguing that the federal arson statute...

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