Legal Opinion
United States v. Joey J. Hicks
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided February 3, 1997No. 96-1910PublishedCited by 37 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Chief Judge.
A jury convicted the appellant, Hicks, and his codefendant, Wing, of arson. 18 U.S.C. § 844(i). Hicks, sentenced to 100 months in prison, appeals.
In 1990 a fire of suspicious origin had damaged a restaurant owned by Wing in downtown Portage, Wisconsin. The restaurant was located in a two-story building that he owned, the second story of which consisted of an unoccupied apartment. He had been overheard a few weeks earlier talking of hiring someone to set fire to the restaurant, and was heavily in debt on the building, which was insured. The fire was set in a closet, and the…
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