Legal Opinion
United States v. Pillado
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided September 7, 2011No. 10-1081, 10-1083, 10-1202PublishedCited by 31 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WOOD, Circuit Judge.
A law enforcement operation that began with the promising interdiction of 943 kilograms of marijuana, shipped from Jalisco, Mexico, ended less than admirably. When government agents executed a “controlled delivery” to an address in McHenry, Illinois, close to the one on the shipping manifest (the address listed did not exist), they arrested five people. By the government’s own account, three persons ensnared in the sting operation had no prior connection to the illicit cargo. They were merely laborers who happened to be working on-site when they were persuaded to unload…
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