United States v. Grzegorczyk, No. 14-3460 (7th Cir. 2015)
Annotate this CaseGrzegorczyk met with undercover officers posing as gun suppliers and stated that he wanted to have individuals killed because he held them responsible for his divorce and loss of child custody. The agents agreed to kill two individuals for $10,000. At their next meeting, Grzegorczyk got into the agents’ car and directed them toward the residences of his ex-wife and of two intended victims. He showed the agents their photographs and provided descriptions and license plate numbers of their vehicles. Later, Grzegorczyk presented several photographs, explaining that he wanted six people killed. He opened a duffle bag, which contained $45,000 in cash, a 9mm semiautomatic firearm, and two magazines loaded with 40 live rounds of ammunition and gave them $3,000 as a down payment. He stated that he intended to leave for Poland and that the trip would provide his alibi for the murders. Grzegorczyk, pleaded guilty to knowingly using a facility of interstate commerce with intent that a murder be committed, 18 U.S.C. 1958(a), and to knowingly possessing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence, 18 U.S.C. 924(a)(1)(A). The court sentenced Grzegorczyk to 211 months’ imprisonment. The Seventh Circuit affirmed, rejecting arguments that the court erred in refusing to apply U.S. Sentencing Commission Guidelines Manual 2X1.1 to reduce his Guidelines calculation and in failing to consider his mental health at the time of the offense.
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