Legal Opinion
United States v. Acosta
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 15, 2008No. 06-1519, 06-1757, 06-1777, 06-1801, 06-1963, 06-2268, 06-2333, 06-2594PublishedCited by 71 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SYKES, Circuit Judge.
The eight defendants in this case participated in what we have previously described as a “long-running” conspiracy involving the distribution of “vast amounts of crack cocaine” by the Latin Kings gang on the Lac Courte Oreilles Reservation in Northern Wisconsin. United States v. Acosta, 474 F.3d 999, 1000 (7th Cir.2007). Four of the defendants were convicted following a jury trial; the others pleaded guilty. In addition to various individual issues raised on appeal, all of the defendants (with the exception of Robert Smith, whose attorney filed an Anders brief) challenge…
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