CHICAGO , Illinois- Judge Rudolph T. Randa of the United States District Court of Eastern Wisconsin in Milwaukee delayed for another month the entry into prison of Dr. Jefferson N. Calimlim and his wife, Elnora (nee: Mendoza) after the couple filed an appeal before the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago, Illinois.
Although Judge Randa did not explain the
extension of the self-surrender of the Calimlim couple scheduled last Jan.
17th, the lawyers for the couple told the judge that they had appealed his
ruling of Nov. 17 convicting them to serve four years in prison after he found
the medical doctors guilty of imposing forced labor on an illegal immigrant
they harbored as a maid in their eastern Wisconsin home for 19 years. Their
lawyer Michael J. Fitzgerald of Glynn, Fitzgerald
& Albee
, S.C. also told Judge Randa that
he had not yet “resolved issues regarding restitution, criminal forfeiture of
the defendant’s home and the defendant’s motion for bond pending appeal."
A check with the US Court of Appeals for
the Seventh Circuit showed that the Calimlims were given until Jan. 26, 2007 to
file their transcript information and their Appellant’s briefs on Feb. 26,
2007."
Their son, Jefferson M. Calimlim, 32, who
was accused of conspiring to harbor an illegal alien, was sentenced to three
years probation, including four months of house arrest with an electronic
monitoring device, and fined $5,000. He was found guilty of one-count of
harboring an alien but acquitted on two other charges. But their son did not
appeal Judge Randa’s verdict.
