Legal Opinion
United States v. Roberto Cervantes
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 22, 1994No. 93-2194PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Chief Judge.
Roberto Cervantes was convicted by a jury of the illegal sale of cocaine and sentenced to 57 months in prison. His appeal complains principally of the district judge’s refusal to suppress as evidence money seized from Cervantes when he was arrested. The circumstances of that seizure were a little strange. An undercover agent, together with an informant, agreed to purchase several hundred grams of cocaine from a dealer named Diaz. They gave Diaz $9,500 in cash for the cocaine and he was to obtain it from his source and deliver it to them at the gas station where they had…
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