Legal Opinion
United States v. Jeff Boyd, Charles Green, Sammy Knox, Noah R. Robinson, and Melvin Mays
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided April 3, 2000No. 98-2035 to 98-2038 and 98-2060PublishedCited by 63 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Chief Judge.
The defendants, members of Chicago’s “El Rukn” street gang, were indicted along with other members of the gang in *6411989 on a variety of serious federal charges. They were tried before a jury in 1991 (all but appellant Mays) and convicted; but the trial judge (Judge Aspen) ordered a new trial because the government had knowingly used false testimony to convict them and had failed to disclose materials that the defendants could have used to impeach the government’s witnesses. After we affirmed his order, 55 F.3d 239 (7th Cir.1995), the defendants were retried, this time…
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