Legal Opinion
United States v. Cooper
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided January 11, 2010No. 08-4021PublishedCited by 60 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WOOD, Circuit Judge.
Kevin Cooper was a heroin dealer who operated out of the Centraba area in southern Illinois. Eventually the pobce caught up with him, and he was charged and convicted of conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute more than 100 grams of heroin, in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 846. On appeal, he challenges both his conviction and his sentence. He asserts that he is entitled to a new trial because of the way that the district court handled his request for self-representation, the fact that he was shackled throughout the trial, and the court’s failure to…
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