Judge Did No Err When Denying Clinic Operator’s Guilty Plea, Panel Says

(December 12, 2018, 2:52 PM EST) -- CHICAGO — A panel of the Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Nov. 29 affirmed a federal judge in Illinois’ decision to deny a chiropractic clinic owner’s request to withdraw his plea of guilty to one count of health care fraud, finding that he could not raise an ineffective assistance of counsel argument and because he was not entitled to a hearing pursuant to the rulings in Kastigar v. United States, 406 U.S. 441, 92 S. Ct. 1653, 32 L. Ed. 2d 212 (1972) and United States v. Palumbo, 897 F.2d 245 (7th Cir. 1990) (United States v. Steven Paul, No. 17-3606, 7th Cir., 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 33485)....