Legal Opinion
United States v. Tracy Conley
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided November 14, 2017No. 15-3442PublishedCited by 46 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ROVNER, Circuit Judge.
Tracy Conley was ensnared in a now familiar government set up in which a government actor, pretending to be a criminal, presents the defendant with an opportunity to be part of a- robbery of an illegal drug stash house. The stash house is fictional, of course, and so the government decides which and what quantity of drugs it will have (in this case, fifty kilograms of cocaine) and how high or low the barriers to the crime will be (in this case it was allegedly protected only by two armed and one unarmed guards). Conley took the bait and ended up with a sentence of 180…
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