Legal Opinion
United States v. Rutherford
District Court, E.D. Wisconsin
Decided June 24, 2004No. 2:03-cv-00224PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SENTENCING MEMORANDUM
ADELMAN, District Judge.
On September 30, 2002, defendant Steven Rutherford was stopped by police in Greenfield, Wisconsin driving a truck carrying ten illegal aliens. A man in Arizona had offered him and his brother Mark several hundred dollars and an eight-ball of cocaine to transport the aliens to Wisconsin, where they hoped to find work.
Federal authorities filed a criminal complaint against the brothers but dismissed it several weeks later with the understanding that Mark, who had a history of smuggling aliens, would cooperate with them. Apparently, Mark did not…
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