Legal Opinion
United States v. Darryl Lamont Johnson
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 3, 2000No. 99-1327PublishedCited by 103 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
The defendant, a high-ranking official of the Gangster Disciples, a large Chicago street gang whose activities are described in our recent opinion in United States v. Jackson, 207 F.3d 910 (7th Cir.2000), was convicted of having ordered the murder of (1) a person who was assisting in a federal criminal investigation and (2) that person and one other in furtherance of a continuing criminal enterprise, and was sentenced to death. 18 U.S.C. §§ 924(i), 1121(a); 21 U.S.C. § 848(e). The victims were gang members who had been arrested but who had then been released pending…
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