Legal Opinion
United States v. Terzakis
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided April 27, 2017No. 16-3340PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FLAUM, Circuit Judge.
John D. Terzakis was indicted for transporting stolen goods. After the government conceded that its key witness would be unavailable to testify at trial, it moved to dismiss the case. Terzakis then filed a motion under the Hyde Amendment seeking attorney’s fees, which the district court denied. For the following reasons, we affirm.
I. Background
In the early 1990s, Terzakis met Berenice Ventrella, the trustee for a family trust with extensive real-estate holdings. Ter-zakis ran a company that managed and developed real estate and eventually managed some of Berenice’s…
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