Legal Opinion
United States v. Rickey B. Wallace
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided January 9, 2002No. 00-3939PublishedCited by 53 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DIANE P. WOOD, Circuit Judge.
Rickey B. Wallace was a big-time marijuana dealer in Southern Illinois. Over the years, he was responsible for transactions amounting to a whopping 13,471 kilograms of that substance, according to one of his co-conspirators, Ubaldo Diaz II. Law enforcement authorities caught up with him in early 1997, when he was indicted along with several others for conspiring to distribute “divers amounts of marihuana” from approximately 1987 through September 1997, in violation of 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1) and 846. He pleaded guilty, but then thought better of matters after he…
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