Legal Opinion
Hawkins v. Drug Enforcement Administration
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 18, 2009No. 09-1451UnpublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
William Hawkins is serving more than 30 years in federal prison for his role in a drug conspiracy. See United States v. Hawkins, No. 98-3504, 1999 WL 402414, *1 (7th Cir. June 11, 1999) (unpublished order). Years after his 1992 trial he demanded that the Drug Enforcement Administration and several other law-enforcement agencies within the Department of Justice turn over, under the Freedom of Information Act, 5 U.S.C. § 552, information about fourteen of the government’s trial witnesses. Hawkins asked for the dates and amounts of any payments to these witnesses, their arrest records, and…
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