Legal Opinion
United States v. Louis James
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided September 22, 2006No. 05-1411PublishedCited by 69 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ROVNER, Circuit Judge.
Following a jury trial, Louis James was convicted of possession of more than fifty grams of crack cocaine (Count I), possession of and carrying a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime (Count II), and possession of a firearm by a felon (Count III). He was sentenced to 360 months’ imprisonment. He challenges the sufficiency of the evidence on the carrying prong of Count II, complains of a number of errors in the jury instructions, and charges that the admission of certain “other bad acts” evidence unfairly prejudiced him. We affirm.
I
In the fall of 2002, Louis…
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