Legal Opinion
United States v. Burton Higham
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided October 18, 1996No. 95-3055PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ILANA DIAMOND ROVNER, Circuit Judge.
Burton Higham hired someone he believed to be a hitman (actually, an undercover FBI agent) to kill his business partner, hoping to collect on a life insurance policy. A jury convicted him on charges that he used the mail in the commission of a murder-for-hire scheme (18 U.S.C. § 1958(a)) and committed mail fraud (18 U.S.C. § 1341). The district judge ordered him to serve a prison term of 120 months on the murder-for-hire counts and a consecutive term of 60 months on the mail fraud counts. Higham appeals, arguing that the evidence against him was…
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