United States v. Kilpatrick

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

KOPF, District Judge.

This is an interesting appeal in a misdemeanor criminal case in which the defendants waived a jury (filing 8 1 ) and consented to proceed to trial and sentencing before Magistrate Judge Piester (filing 8). Judge Piester found the defendants guilty, and he sentenced them to probation and fined them. They now assert a timely appeal. See 18 U.S.C. § 3402 (providing for appeals to the district court for judgments of conviction rendered by magistrate judges); 18 U.S.C. § 3742(h) (providing for appeals to the district court for sentences imposed by…