U.S. v. GRIFFIN

No. 91 CR 371.

867 F.Supp. 1347 (1994)

UNITED STATES of America, v. Steven C. GRIFFIN, Marvin M. Rux, Andrae Scurlock, Defendants.

United States District Court, N.D. Illinois, Eastern Division.

November 4, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Zaldwaynaka L. Scott, U.S. Attys. Office, Chicago, IL, for plaintiff.

George N. Leighton, Earl L. Neal & Assocs., David Carl Thomas, Chicago-Kent College of Law, Stanley L. Hill, Jennifer H. Lee, Stanley L. Hill & Assocs., Chicago, IL, for Marvin Rux.


MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

ZAGEL, District Judge.

This is a case of a defense counsel without much of a defense to money laundering/structuring charges who tried to follow the old maxim that when the facts and the law are against you, then attack the prosecution. The problem with this tactic is that, in its purest form, it is quite outside the law. A generation ago Justice Walter Schaefer once lamented the "increasing tendency in criminal cases...

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