Legal Opinion
In re Kashamu
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided September 15, 2014No. 14-2093PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
The petition for mandamus that is before us is «the sequel to an appeal we decided three years ago in a litigation that began sixteen years ago. For it was in May 1998 that Buruji Kashamu, a dual citizen of Nigeria and Benin, was charged in an indictment returned by a federal grand jury in Chicago, along with thirteen other persons, with conspiracy to import heroin into the United States and distribute it, in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 963.
The government believed that Kashamu was the leader of the conspirators. He was indicted both in his own name and under what the…
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