Legal Opinion
United States v. Theodore Richards
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided June 14, 2013No. 12-2790PublishedCited by 62 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FLAUM, Circuit Judge.
As Theodore Richards tells it, he was the unwitting stooge of California drug dealers who flew him from California to Chicago on a mission to pick up and transport money but, unbeknownst to him, sent him home with ten kilograms of cocaine instead. Unfortunately for him, a joint federal-state task force had his pick-up site under surveillance in coordination with a controlled buy scheduled to occur there that day. Officers stopped Richards, too, and discovered the cocaine. A jury convicted him of possession with intent to distribute after he took the stand in his own…
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