Legal Opinion
United States v. Roderick Sinclair
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided October 21, 2014No. 12-2604PublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SYKES, Circuit Judge.
Roderick Sinclair was arrested in Elk-hart, Indiana, for driving with a suspended license. The police found a loaded handgun, a distribution quantity of marijuana, and tools of the drug-trafficking trade in his car. Sinclair was indicted for possessing marijuana with intent to distribute, see 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1), possessing a firearm *1150in furtherance of a drug-trafficking crime, see 18 U.S.C. § 924(c), and possessing a firearm as a felon, see id. § 922(g)(1).
Trial was set to begin on a Tuesday. On Wednesday of the week before trial, Sinclair wrote the district judge…
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