Legal Opinion
United States v. Wilton Johnson, Jose J. Salazar, Javier C. Santa Cruz, and Jesus G. Guzman
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided April 23, 2001No. 99-3902, 00-1525, 99-1516, 00-1524PublishedCited by 52 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BAUER, Circuit Judge.
This opinion addresses a multi-issue appeal from a multi-defendant criminal drug trial. Our examination of this case leads us to affirm on all claims.
BACKGROUND
In early November 1998, Octavio Hol-guin asked Wilton Johnson to transport drugs for him from El Paso, Texas to the Days Inn Hotel in Shorewood, Illinois. Johnson and two others piled into a truck with a trailer attached and headed out to pick up over 500 kilograms of bricked cocaine in boxes from Holguin. En route to Illinois, the men were pulled over on a traffic stop, whereupon Johnson consented to a search of…
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