Legal Opinion
United States v. Corson
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 27, 2009No. 08-2094, 08-2675PublishedCited by 51 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TINDER, Circuit Judge.
Marcus Corson and Oscar Alvarez were charged with two conspiracies, one to rob a drug stash house and the other to sell what they planned to steal. This seems straightforward enough. But there’s a twist. There never was any stash house to rob. Nor were-there any drugs. And the two people who introduced Corson and Alvarez to the stash house plan never intended to rob anything. That’s because one was a government agent and the other a confidential informant (“Cl”). This fictitious stash house plot was concocted by law enforcement to entice all-too-eager gangsters to agree…
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