U.S. v. Whitlow, No. 01-3999 (7th Cir.) (287 F.3d 638) (April 25, 2002) (Judge Frank H. Easterbrook)
In this case the Seventh Circuit put its seal of approval on a new weapon of vindictiveness in the Government’s continuing battle to reduce, if not eliminate, the number of appeals in criminal cases: the majority held that if a defendant files an appeal in disregard of his agreement to ...
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