Legal Opinion
United States v. Frank Rudolph Esposito and Richard Piekarski
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided September 18, 1985No. 83-3233, 84-1126 and 84-1612PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FAIRCHILD, Senior Circuit Judge.
Defendant Piekarski was convicted of five violations of the Hobbs Act (18 U.S.C. § 1951) and one violation of the Travel Act (18 U.S.C. § 1952). Defendant Esposito was convicted of seven violations of the Hobbs Act and four violations of the Travel Act. Each was sentenced to twenty years imprisonment on each of the Hobbs Act counts, with the sentences to run concurrently, and to five years on the Travel Act counts, to run concurrently with each other, but consecutively to the twenty-year terms. They appeal.
There was ample evidence that defendants attempted…
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