Opinion ID: 732905
Heading Depth: 4
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: Document Describing the Amount of Currency Forfeited by Kizel

Text: 13 Donovan's third claim is that the government withheld a forfeiture document from the defense indicating that the amount of currency seized from Rick Kizel totaled $750,000, a figure ten times greater than that which previously had been disclosed. The document to which Donovan refers is Kizel's indictment. 1 14 We agree with the district court that the information in the indictment is merely impeaching and therefore immaterial for purposes of Rule 33. As the district court found, the amount of money forfeited by Kizel is relevant only to the issue of Kizel's credibility, and not to Donovan's actual guilt or innocence. We note, too, that Kizel's indictment is a public record which Donovan or his counsel could have obtained before trial. See e.g., Haynes v. Knopf, Inc., 8 F.3d 1222, 1231 (7th Cir.1993).