Legal Opinion
United States v. Devon Roche
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 11, 2005No. 04-1475PublishedCited by 110 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.
Devon Roche sold ecstasy to Derrick Perkins three times during the summer of 2000. Before each sale, Roche called Perkins to discuss logistics. That is, Roche thrice used a telecommunications device to facilitate the distribution of a controlled substance, in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 843(b). As it turned out, Roche’s involvement in the ecstasy trade went well beyond these transactions. Between 1998 and 2000, Roche led a group that smuggled more than 120,000 tablets of ecstasy from Amsterdam to Chicago. The prosecutor offered to dismiss charges related to this…
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