Legal Opinion
United States v. Robert James Jefferson
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided March 14, 2016No. 15-1309PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LOKEN, Circuit Judge.
Robert James Jefferson, born in October 1977, joined the 6-0-Tres gang in 1993 and soon began participating in the St. Paul gang’s violent criminal activity. In 1998, after a six-week , trial, a federal jury convicted Jefferson of conspiracy to distribute cocaine. and crack cocaine; two substantive drug trafficking offenses in 1997; the firebombing murder of five young children in February 1994, when Jefferson was sixteen; and the drive-by shooting of a drug debtor and an innocent bystander in February 1995, when Jefferson was seventeen. " Consistent with the…
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