United States v. Bates

OPINION

RICHARD MILLS, District Judge:

“El Rukn III” on remand.

Limited remand.

On April 23,1996, the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit vacated Defendants’ convictions and remanded this cause for a limited purpose. Contrary to Defendants’ assertions in post-appeal motions, there is but one issue which this Court needs to address on remand. This Court is directed to determine “whether exclusion of the evidence about the open unit, when added to the instances of prosecutorial misconduct (including eliciting testimony as to prior bad acts by two of the defendants) constituted a…