United States v. Nick Senak

PELL, Circuit Judge.

In February 1972, a federal grand jury returned a five-count indictment against Nick Senak, a public defender for Lake County, Indiana. The indictment charged that Senak, while acting under color of law, “willfully and unlawfully exacted and took” money from various persons, thereby willfully depriving those persons of their right under the Fourteenth Amendment not to be deprived of property without due process of law, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 242.1 More specifically, notwithstanding his appointment under Indiana law as a “pauper attorney,” by virtue of which he was…