Legal Opinion
United States v. Moore
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 27, 2008No. 06-1355, 06-3347, 06-4308PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EASTERBROOK, Chief Judge.
Michael Sanders arrived in the United States from Nigeria with 3.6 kilograms of heroin in his luggage. When caught, he claimed to be a courier with no interest in the drugs apart from a $3,000 fee for his services; he agreed to participate in a controlled delivery to the next people in the chain, who were to collect the heroin at a bus station in Chicago. Several conversations in Yoruba with “Baba,” Sanders’s contact, preceded his arrival. Eventually Taofiq Afonja drove up and told Sanders to put his luggage in the trunk of his car. Sanders asked, in Yoruba, whether…
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