Legal Opinion
United States v. Dennis M. McGiffen and Wallace S. Weicherding
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided October 12, 2001No. 98-3400, 98-4218 and 99-3797PublishedCited by 34 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DIANE P. WOOD, Circuit Judge.
Dennis McGiffen and Wallace Weicherd-ing were members of a group of white supremacists in southern Illinois. After a lengthy undercover investigation by the FBI into the group’s activities, McGiffen, Weicherding, and two co-conspirators, Ralph Bock and Glenn Lowtharp, were charged in a one-count indictment with conspiracy to receive and possess unregistered firearms and destructive devices in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 371. McGiffen was also charged in a separate one-count information with possession of a machine gun in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(o). He pleaded…
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