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Criminal Law Keyed to Osler
United States v. Chaplin
Citation:
25 F.3d 1373 (7th Cir. 1994)Facts
Defendant owned a firm that contracted with the state of Wisconsin to built put toilets in several state parks. In May 1990, the state declared the contracts to be in default because the work had not been completed. The state started a lawsuit against the company the defendant owned, Transamerica Premiere Insurance, who then started a lawsuit with the defendant. The state was seeking, amongst other things, the return of materials that were delivered to the construction site, including doors, toilets, and urinals. At a state court hearing on the matter, defendant testified that the materials were in a trailer in the overflow parking area of the Peninsula State Park, but no materials or trailer were found there.
Because of the lawsuits, defendant filed for bankruptcy on October 15, 1990. Transamerica filed a proof of claim and initiated two adversary proceedings. In those bankruptcy proceedings, the defendant was asked under oath whether he gave his father in law Joseph Voss $8,000 in cash on October 23, 1990; whether a photo taken by his landlord AL Payment depicting construction materials in his garage were the materials the state wanted back; and whether he removed materials from his residential garage. To all three he said “I do not recall, no”.
To substantiate those claims, Voss testified that the defendant gave him $8,000 sometime in October of 1990, and bank records show that Voss deposited $8,000 on October 23rd, 1990. Additionally Payment testified to seeing materials labeled in the garage as the defendants that appeared to be outhouse inserts and door frames. These items were in a photo he took and furnished at trial, though the name labels were not apparent in the photo. Lastly, a neighbor testified that he saw the defendant leave his house with what he thought were door frames in his trunk. Defendant was charged and convicted of three perjury charges for his answers to those questions.
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