Legal Opinion
United States v. Broadnax
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 4, 2008No. 07-1985PublishedCited by 34 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WOOD, Circuit Judge.
When Gregory Broadnax set out to meet Rashawn Jackson, a friend since childhood, in the parking lot of the Econo Lodge Hotel in South Bend, Indiana, he intended to sell Jackson a “zip” (slang, we are told, for an ounce of crack cocaine) for $700— just as the two had planned in a series of phone calls earlier that night. But when Broadnax pulled his car into the lot, he got far more than he had bargained for. Unbeknownst to Broadnax, Jackson recently had been arrested for selling crack cocaine to an undercover officer and was now cooperating with the police. Thus, as…
2Cases cited11 opinions
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- Downum v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
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