Legal Opinion
United States v. Marcus O. Evans, Samuel Tidwell, Gregory Fort, and Helen L. Fort
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided September 19, 1996No. 94-3633, 94-3690, 94-3691, 94-3727 and 95-3112PublishedCited by 60 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Chief Judge.
The four defendants who are the appellants in this court were tried together before a jury for offenses relating to the sale of powder and crack cocaine and were convicted. Three were sentenced to life imprisonment without possibility of parole and the fourth (Helen Fort) to 26 years. We count 29 separate issues and 390 pages of briefs in these appeals, but most of the issues have too little merit to warrant discussion.
The appellants were members of a 19-person drug ring active between 1989 and 1993 in Rockford, Illinois. Seven, including all four appellants, constituted a…
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