Legal Opinion
United States v. Abraham Hernandez
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 9, 2003No. 99-2299, 99-2505, 99-2514, 99-2570, 99-2598, 99-2763, 99-2983 and 01-1690PublishedCited by 145 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KANNE, Circuit Judge.
I. History
In August 1995, the FBI, with the help of the Chicago Police Department, began an investigation of a Chicago street gang known as the Project Latin Kings. The authorities suspected this gang, a subgroup of the much larger Latin Kings gang, of operating a drug ring in the Chicago Housing Authority’s Lathrop Homes. The investigation lasted over two years and resulted in the collection of a substantial amount of evidence. As part of the investigation, several officers made undercover drug buys from members of the gang and conducted surveillance of the gang. The…
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