Legal Opinion
United States v. Guillermo Gil
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 31, 1979No. 78-2360PublishedCited by 40 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PECK, Senior Circuit Judge.
Defendant-appellant Guillermo Gil was indicted along with his brother-in-law Oscar Villegas, and charged with distribution of heroin. The defendants were tried together in a bench trial, and Gil was found guilty. His codefendant Villegas was found not guilty by reason of entrapment on the part of the Government. The trial judge specifically relied upon several statements made by Villegas to the undercover investigators, implicating Gil, in finding Gil guilty. On appeal, Gil presents a sophisticated logical argument, urging that Villegas’s statements were not…
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