Legal Opinion
United States v. Thomas E. Silverstein, Adolph Reynosa, Clayton A. Fountain, and Edgar Hevle
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 26, 1984No. 82-2453, 82-2454, 82-2456 and 82-2457PublishedCited by 202 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
These appeals by Thomas Silverstein, Clayton Fountain, Edgar Hevle, and Adolph Reynosa from their convictions for complicity in the murder of an inmate at Marion Penitentiary, the nation’s maximum-security federal prison, Garza v. Miller, 688 F.2d 480, 482 (7th Cir.1982), afford a horrifying glimpse of the sordid and lethal world of modern prison gangs. The story begins with a chance encounter in 1981 of three prisoners — Galez, Perumean, and defendant Silverstein — in a county jail where they were being held en route to various prisons. Galez, who like Silver-stein had…
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