Legal Opinion
United States v. Maldonado
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided June 21, 2018No. Nos. 16-4083 & 17-1402PublishedCited by 42 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Bauer, Circuit Judge.
Jose Maldonado and Francisco Masias (together, "the Defendants") were charged with conspiring to distribute cocaine, amongst six other counts irrelevant to this appeal. During trial, the district court gave a multiple conspiracies jury instruction and refused to give a "meeting of the minds" instruction proposed by Masias. The jury convicted the Defendants on all counts, and they now appeal. They contend the government lacked sufficient evidence to prove conspiracy between them and Edwin Rodriguez, a cooperating defendant, and Masias contends separately that the district…
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