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"Fast Eddie" Vrdolyak hoping to get a fast pass up to the Justices

By Douglas A. Berman

As detailed in this post from January, a split panel of the Seventh Circuit earlier this year reversed a prominent sentence of five-years' probation (plus 2500 hours of community service) for a prominent former Chicago politician in US v. Vrdolyak, No. 09-1891 (7th Cir. Jan. 29, 2010) (available here).  After having failed to get the Seventh Circuit to take the case en banc, it appears that politician known as "Fast Eddie" is now hoping to get the Supreme Court to take up his case.  This short local press report provides the basics: Former Chicago Ald. Edward Vrdolyak plans to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court a federal appeals court decision on his sentence for participating in a real estate scheme, his attorneys said. Attorney Michael Monico said he was disappointed that the 7th Circuit U...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on March 25, 2010 (boomark / email).