United States v. Rickmon

ORDER

Terrill Rickmon confessed to selling crack cocaine after police in Peoria, Illinois, executed a search warrant at his girlfriend’s apartment and found him there with a distributable quantity of the drug. He pled guilty to possession with intent to distribute, and was sentenced to 120 months in prison, the statutory minimum given the amount of crack. On appeal, Rickmon argues that the district court should have (1) ordered the government to disclose the identity of the informant whose information led to the search warrant; (2) granted him a hearing under Franks v. Delaware, 438 U.S. 154,…