Opinion
07-cr-100-jcs.
June 5, 2008
ORDER
Acting pro se, defendant Thomas McHugh filed two motions on April 18, 2008. The first was a motion for correction of a clerical error. That motion was granted in an order entered on April 24, 2008. The second motion was one to dismiss or modify the lis pendens filed by the government against certain property owned by defendant.
Defendant's second motion will be denied for lack of jurisdiction. Defendant has an appeal pending in the Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and he has a lawyer representing him. Until that appeal is resolved, only the court of appeals has jurisdiction to hear challenges going to the merits of defendant's case.