Legal Opinion
United States v. Sawyer
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided April 9, 2008No. 06-1275, 06-1614, 06-4030PublishedCited by 82 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EASTERBROOK, Chief Judge.
In each of these appeals, the sole argument is that the district court committed plain error by not specifying an installment plan for the payment of restitution. In one of the three cases the district judge set a plan (which we call a “schedule” following the statutory usage) to begin after release from custody; this defendant maintains that doing so delegated schedule-setting during imprisonment to the Bureau of Prisons. In the other cases the district judge ordered all restitution to be paid immediately. The judges in these two cases announced schedules orally but…
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