Mr. C______’s journey through the American legal system isn’t finished: he has filed an appeal. On what grounds, I have no idea. The US District Court case file doesn’t say, and the Court of Appeals online case filing system has no cases filed under the name ‘C______’.

The Bureau of Prisons inmate locator still has no record of him, either. Not even ‘in transit’. The sentencing form said he was to be remanded to the custody of the US Marshals, so he should be there.

(Poor Mr. C______. Not only is he looking at 10 years behind bars – probably at the federal penitentiary in Pekin; it’s closest – but there’s some goon from Champaign obsessively tracking his every misfortune and blathering about it on a web site.)