Legal Opinion

United States v. Sidney Seller

Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

Decided May 20, 2011No. 09-2516PublishedCited by 29 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

ROVNER, Circuit Judge.

As part of a sting operation, police officers and Drug Enforcement Administration officers staked out Sidney Sellers’s car. When they pulled the car over for traffic violations, they found a fully loaded handgun registered in Illinois. Sellers, however, was in Indiana. Upon arrest for possession of a handgun without the requisite license, an inventory search of Sellers’s car revealed several bags containing crack cocaine. Sellers was charged with and convicted by a jury of possession with intent to sell crack cocaine and possession of a firearm used in drug trafficking,…

2Cases cited8 opinions

  1. United States v. Gonzalez-LopezSupreme Court of the United States · 2006
  2. United States v. David Carrera and Luis M. CarreraCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2001
  3. United States v. Miriam SantosCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2000
  4. Carlson v. JessCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2008
  5. Campania Management Company, Incorporated v. Rooks, Pitts & Poust, a Law Firm, and Frank Rowland, Rooks, Pitts & Poust, a Law Firm v. Campania Management Company, IncorporatedCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2002

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3Cited by29 opinions

  1. United States v. Robert FoxCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2017
  2. United States v. Roderick SinclairCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2014
  3. United States v. Chikenna JonesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 2013
  4. United States v. GayaCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2011
  5. United States v. Thomas BalsigerCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2018

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