Legal Opinion
United States v. Garcia
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided September 1, 2009No. 07-3964, 07-4060, 08-1141PublishedCited by 97 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KANNE, Circuit Judge.
Paula Alvarez, Dustin Decker, and Saul Garcia were part of a widespread drug conspiracy that stretched from Chicago to Indianapolis. On June 20, 2007, a grand jury returned a four-count second superseding indictment charging twenty-one individuals with a variety of crimes, including conspiracy to distribute in excess of 500 grams of methamphetamine. See 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1), 846. A jury found both Alvarez and Garcia guilty of participating in the conspiracy; Decker pled guilty. We consolidated the defendants’ cases for appeal.
Because the defendants each played a…
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