Legal Opinion
United States v. Kayode A. Oseni, Salvador A. Oseni, and Abdul K. Jafaru
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided June 17, 1993No. 92-2073, 92-2088 and 92-2189PublishedCited by 46 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
The three appellants were convicted of federal drug offenses and sentenced to long prison terms. The details of the offenses are not important, so we skip them. The only meritorious issue involves Jafaru’s double jeopardy claim, so we focus on that. Jafaru’s principal defense consisted of his testimony that while ostensibly cooperating with the other defendants in selling illegal drugs he repeatedly reported what was going on to the police by means of telephone calls to the police emergency number, 911. In rebuttal, the assistant U.S. attorney who was prosecuting the…
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