 Landis sentenced each defendant to twenty years in federal prison.Landis denied the defendants bail pending appeal, but they quickly obtained it from an appellate court judge.The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals declined to rule on the case itself, sending it on to the Supreme Court, which on January 31, 1921, overturned the convictions and sentences by a 6–3 vote, holding that Landis should have stepped aside once he was satisfied that the affidavit was legally sufficient, leaving it for another judge to decide whether it was actually true.