Legal Opinion
United States v. Rosalba Solivan
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided August 6, 1991No. 90-5500PublishedCited by 193 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KEITH, Circuit Judge.
Defendant-appellant, Rosalba Solivan (“defendant”) appeals from her March 28, 1990, judgment and sentence resulting from the sale of cocaine. For the following reasons, we REVERSE.
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Terry and Lorraine Brown (collectively “the Browns”) became Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”) informants in July 1988, subsequent to Terry Brown’s arrest for the purchase of one kilogram of cocaine from Pepe (defendant’s former boyfriend) and defendant on March 8, 1988.
On February 13, 1989, while in custody, the Browns began making a series of DEA controlled, tape recorded, telephone…
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