United States v. Christopher Barnes

KORMAN, District Judge:

Christopher Barnes was named in Count Twenty-Seven of a thirty-three-count indictment arising out of the prosecution of the most significant members of the Latin Kings street gang, an enterprise that was engaged “in narcotics trafficking, murder, and other acts of violence.” The indictment begins by narrating in extensive detail the background and history of the Latin Kings and its “Connecticut chapter,” the means and methods of the enterprise, and some fifteen specific racketeering acts that constituted the pattern of racketeering in which the named defendants were…