Legal Opinion
United States v. Joseph F. Paulus
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 22, 2005No. 04-3092PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KANNE, Circuit Judge.
Joseph Paulus, the former District Attorney for Winnebago County, Wisconsin, pled guilty to one count of using the mail and interstate facilities to promote bribery and one count of filing a false tax return. At sentencing, the district judge departed from the Sentencing Guidelines to give Paulus a longer sentence than the one contemplated by the parties in Paulus’s plea agreement. Paulus appeals his sentence on the grounds that it was imposed in violation of the Ex Post Facto Clause of the Constitution and that it fails to comply with United States v. Booker , — U.S. -,…
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