Legal Opinion
United States v. Gillespie
District Court, N.D. Illinois
Decided July 29, 1987No. 86 CR 646PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
SHADUR, District Judge.
Edward Gillespie (“Gillespie”) moves to dismiss, on statute-of-limitations grounds, Counts Three and Four of the “superseding indictment” returned in this case on March 20, 1987 by the January 1987 Grand Jury. For the reasons stated in this memorandum opinion and order, Gillespie’s motion is granted, though he has likely won only a Pyrrhic victory — for the United States is now free to reindict Gillespie without running afoul of the same limitations bar. This Court also dismisses the original indictment in this case (returned September 4,…
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