Legal Opinion
United States v. Sam Paiz, Douglas Rector, Dick Selby, Leann Cooper, Joe Rector, Barbara Allen, and Tim Rector
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided September 13, 1990No. 89-1264, 89-1282, 89-1285, 89-1304, 89-1307, 89-1308 and 89-1315PublishedCited by 98 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ESCHBACH, Senior Circuit Judge.
Joe Rector and his sons Ron, Doug, and Tim were drug dealers. They obtained drugs in Indiana and Nebraska, then shipped them “downstream” to Florida or New York where they moved the drugs to others in the drug-distribution pipeline. This group, Rector & Sons, 1 was caught. Joe, Doug, Tim, and a host of others who worked from time to time with Rector & Sons were prosecuted in federal court, convicted there, and sentenced. This consolidated criminal appeal involves a number of issues raised by some of these persons, individually or en masse, with respect to…
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