Legal Opinion

Michael Belleau v. Edward Wall

Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

Decided January 29, 2016No. 15-3225PublishedCited by 47 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

In 1992 the plaintiff, who was then 48 years old, was convicted in a Wisconsin state court of having sexually assaulted a boy repeatedly for five years beginning *931when the boy was eight years old. (The plaintiff was and is a resident of that state and his crimes occurred there.) Oddly, he was given only a year in jail and probation for these assaults, but before the period of probation expired he was convicted of having in 1988 sexually assaulted a nine-year-old girl. Sentenced to 10 years in prison for that crime, he was paroled after 6 years. But his parole was revoked…

2Cases cited20 opinions

  1. Katz v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
  2. Skinner v. Railway Labor Executives' Assn.Supreme Court of the United States · 1989
  3. Kansas v. HendricksSupreme Court of the United States · 1997
  4. Kyllo v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 2001
  5. Vernonia School District 47J v. ActonSupreme Court of the United States · 1995

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3Cited by47 opinions

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