Legal Opinion
United States v. Luis A. Perez
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided December 22, 1994No. 93-3003PublishedCited by 48 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RIPPLE, Circuit Judge.
On the evening of January 13, 1993, Luis Perez, an inmate at the Federal Correctional Institution at Oxford, Wisconsin (FCI-Oxford), slashed the throat of his cellmate Faustino Calderon-Abeja (“Calderon”). Mr. Perez was convicted by a jury of assault with intent to commit murder and of possession of a prohibited object intended as a weapon. The district court sentenced Mr. Perez to twenty years of imprisonment on count I and a consecutive five years of imprisonment on count II. On appeal, Mr. Perez raises issues concerning a jury instruction and his sentence. For the…
2Cases cited33 opinions
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3Cited by48 opinions
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