Legal Opinion
United States v. James O'Neill
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided February 10, 2006No. 04-2589PublishedCited by 39 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TERENCE T. EVANS, Circuit Judge.
Mario Morales was a crooked Chicago police officer who soiled his badge by ripping off drug dealers. The means to that end — described in an indictment alleging a federal RICO violation, see 18 U.S.C. § 1962(d) — were fairly simple, and for our purposes we recount just one of his brazen acts of criminality.
On a May day in 2001, Morales, cloaked in the trappings of a narcotics officer— police badge around his neck and service revolver in hand — entered the residence of a Chicago drug dealer named Jerome Car-man. Morales had two nonpolice-officer cohorts with…
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