United States v. Walter Tranowski

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

Stanley Tranowski used a counterfeit $5 bill to buy two “Whoppers” at a Burger King restaurant, and was tried and convicted of violating the federal counterfeiting law. The jury rejected his brother Walter’s alibi testimony, and Walter was later indicted for perjury. At Walter’s trial, a critical issue was whether a photograph of Stanley kneeling with his mother and his dog in front of rosebushes in bloom had been taken on the day when he was accused of having passed the counterfeit bill, as Walter had testified. Walter was convicted, and appealed. This court reversed.…