Legal Opinion
United States v. York
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 15, 2009No. 07-2032PublishedCited by 71 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TINDER, Circuit Judge.
As Darvell York spoke to Tracy Mitchell about selling him “nine probably hard,” law enforcement was listening. Agents had set up a sting to buy nine ounces of crack cocaine from York, and Mitchell was their informant. At York’s trial, the government played the recorded conversations for the jury. Though York and Mitchell seemed to speak in plain English, without any reference to drugs, the government argued that they were really conversing in the cryptic, coded language of the narcotics trade. The government called two law enforcement witnesses to interpret this drug…
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