Legal Opinion
United States v. Douglas Martin, Melvin Alicea, Hector Carrasco, Victor Alicea, and Victor Matias, Jr.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided April 19, 2002No. 00-3519, 00-3520, 00-3747, 00-3781, 01-1929PublishedCited by 60 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BAUER, Circuit Judge.
The defendants were engaged in a conspiracy to distribute cocaine in Sauk County, Wisconsin. 1 Several defendants elected to go to trial and were found guilty by their respective juries; others chose to plead guilty. The district court imposed sentences on each defendant. Almost all of the five defendants before this court appeal some aspect of their sentences, and the others raise a litany of additional issues related to their trials. For the following reasons, we affirm the verdicts and sentences for all five defendants.
BACKGROUND
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