Legal Opinion
United States v. James Harris and Richard Gray
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided February 24, 1984No. 83-1778, 83-1801PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
These consolidated appeals raise significant issues regarding the scope of important federal criminal laws, and lesser evidentiary and procedural questions, all growing out of a theft of tiles that the Chicago Housing Authority had bought with federal money.
James Harris, a CHA employee for more than 20 years, was in charge of, and Richard Gray a member of, a team assigned to lay tile in public housing owned by the CHA. The materials for the project were paid for entirely by a grant from the Department of Housing and Urban Development; and although the CHA contributed the…
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