Legal Opinion
United States v. Otis Sykes
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 19, 2018No. 16-2860 & 16-3525PublishedCited by 50 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Stadtmueller, District Judge.
Joseph Faulkner and Otis Sykes were convicted of conspiring to sell heroin at a place called the Keystone, an open-air drug market on Chicago's west side. Faulkner was a leader of the gang which ran the market and Sykes was a low-level street dealer. In this consolidated appeal, Faulkner challenges numerous aspects of his conviction, while Sykes takes issue with his sentence. Neither presents arguments which merit reversal of the district court. Accordingly, we affirm the appellants' convictions and sentences. We have jurisdiction over these appeals pursuant to 28…
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