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More interesting details on the Vrdolyak appeal in the Seventh Circuit

By Douglas A. Berman

I noted here yesterday the tough questions being asked by panel of the Seventh Circuit might concerning a lenient political corruption sentence. This new piece in The National Law Journal, which is headlined "Judge Posner Knocks Trial Judge's Judgment in Vrdolyak Appeal," provides more interesting details: Judge Richard Posner of the 7th Circuit is not someone whom lower court judges want denigrating their rulings. But that's what the oft-cited judge did Thursday to Senior U.S. District Judge Milton Shadur. The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments on Wednesday in prosecutors' appeal of a sentence handed down to longtime (now retired) Chicago alderman Edward R. Vrdolyak. Shadur had sentenced Vrdolyak to five-years probation and a $50,000 fine for his role in an illegal kickback scheme...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on December 11, 2009 (boomark / email).