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- Title: United States v. Senak
- Author : United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
- Release Date : January 23, 1975
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 78 KB
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PELL, Circuit Judge. The defendant, Nick Senak, a lawyer, was charged with violation of 18 U.S.C. § 242 in a five count indictment. The indictment in substance charged Senak with having used his office as pauper attorney of the Lake County, Indiana, Criminal Court to exact sums of money from a person he had been appointed to represent (Count I) and from relatives and friends of persons he had been appointed to represent (Counts II-V) by stating to such persons that he would not adequately represent the persons he had been appointed to represent unless he were paid amounts in addition to his salary; that this conduct deprived those persons of property without due process. On motion of the defendant the indictment was dismissed. The judgment of dismissal was reversed by this court and the case was remanded for further proceedings. United States v. Senak, 477 F.2d 304 (7th Cir. 1973), cert. denied, 414 U.S. 856, 38 L. Ed. 2d 105, 94 S. Ct. 157. At the trial which followed, Count V was dismissed on motion of the Government on the morning of trial. At the conclusion of the Government's evidence, the district court sustained the defendant's motion for acquittal as to Count I. The jury returned a verdict of guilty on Counts II and IV (concerning James Cadle and Honore Gilarski) and not guilty on Count III (concerning Willie Drake). The defendant was sentenced to a term of imprisonment for 60 days on each of Counts II and IV to run concurrently and was fined in the total amount of $2000.00.