Legal Opinion
United States v. Thompson
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided April 25, 2008No. 06-1741PublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge.
At one time, Marc Thompson owned a seat on the Chicago Board of Trade and earned over $1 million a year. He is now in prison after a jury found him guilty of setting his house on fire in an attempt to collect on an insurance policy. In an even more disturbing finding, the district court concluded that he deliberately killed his own mother in the fire while trying to make it appear that she had committed suicide. We find that sufficient evidence supported the jury’s conclusion that Thompson set the fire, so we affirm his convictions. We also find no error in the…
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