Legal Opinion
United States v. Rollins
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided September 15, 2008No. 07-2649, 07-2930PublishedCited by 153 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TINDER, Circuit Judge.
Beginning in August of 2004, various law enforcement agencies in southern Illinois combined their efforts to concentrate on the investigation of drug distribution and drug crimes in the Alton, Illinois, area. Their endeavors resulted in an eighteen-count, twelve-defendant federal indictment in the district court. Most of the defendants entered pleas of guilty, but a handful of them contested the charges at what turned out to be a thirteen-day jury trial. This appeal is brought by two of those trial defendants, James E. Rollins Sr. and Rudy Slack, 1 against whom the…
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