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United States v. Tony Sparkman

Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

Decided November 18, 2016No. 12-3680, 12-3683, 12-3747, 13-1374 & 13-2321PublishedCited by 128 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

KANNE, Circuit Judge..

Chicago Police Department officer Glenn Lewellen arrested drug dealer Saul Rodriguez in 1996 and eventually turned him into an informant. By 1998, the two had established a more lucrative arrangement: Rodriguez, would collect information about local drug dealers, and then Lewel-len would make a seemingly legitimate detention of the dealers and rob them of their drugs and money.

Over the next several years, ■ Rodriguez and Defendant Lewellen ran a successful criminal enterprise, bringing in at least thirteen more participants, including Defendants Hector Uriarte…

2Cases cited97 opinions

  1. Batson v. KentuckySupreme Court of the United States · 1986
  2. United States v. OlanoSupreme Court of the United States · 1993
  3. United States v. WadeSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
  4. Almendarez-Torres v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1998
  5. Taylor v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1990

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3Cited by128 opinions

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  2. United States v. SalasCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 2018
  3. United States v. Michael AnglinCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2017
  4. United States v. PonzoCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 2017
  5. United States v. Askia WashingtonCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 2017

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