U.S. v. ANDREAS

No. 96 CR 762.

23 F.Supp.2d 855 (1998)

UNITED STATES of America v. Michael D. ANDREAS, Mark E. Whitacre, Terrance S. Wilson, Kazutoshi Yamada.

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

September 17, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James T. Phalen, John M. Bray, Kevin M. Dinan, Schwalb, Donnenfeld, Bray & Silbert, Washington, DC, John David Shakow, King & Spalding, Washington, DC, for Michael D. Andreas.

Bill T. Walker, Granite City, IL, for Mark E. Whitacre.

Kristina M.L. Anderson, Fishman, Merrick, Miller, & Anderson, P.C., Chicago, IL, Robert W. Fleishman, Mark J. Hulkower, Reid H. Weingarten, Steptoe & Johnson, Washington, DC, for Terrance S. Wilson.

Philip A. Guentert, U.S. Attorney's Office, Chicago, IL, Jerry Michael Santangelo, Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg, Chicago, IL, for U.S.


MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

MANNING, District Judge.

Defendants Michael D. Andreas, Mark E. Whitacre, and Terrance S. Wilson now move for an immediate mistrial, asserting that the prosecution violated their respective Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination by engaging in prosecutorial misconduct during closing argument. First, they argue that the prosecutor improperly commented on the defendants' failure to testify in order to suggest...

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