Jeffrey White v. Donald Gaetz

In the United States Court of Appeals For the Seventh Circuit No. 08-2766 JEFFREY W HITE, Petitioner-Appellant, v. D ONALD G AETZ, Acting Warden, Respondent-Appellee. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois. No. 07-2112—Michael P. McCuskey, Chief Judge. A RGUED O CTOBER 5, 2009—D ECIDED D ECEMBER 21, 2009 Before E VANS and SYKES, Circuit Judges, and SIMON, District Judge. 1 S IMON, District Judge. When a trial judge looks out over the courtroom and sees no one sitting there, it pres- ents a practical problem when he or she is trying to com- 1 The…