Legal Opinion
United States v. Gilberto Lopez Granados
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided April 24, 1998No. 97-1900PublishedCited by 38 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KANNE, Circuit Judge.
Gilberto Lopez Granados appeals his conviction for conspiracy and attempt to commit extortion in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1951(a). He argues that the evidence was insufficient to convict him, and that certain comments made by the prosecutor during closing argument and the judge’s erroneous oral charge to the jury deprived him of a fair trial. Because we find these arguments unpersuasive, we affirm Granados’s conviction.
I. History
Granados published a Spanish-language newspaper in Chicago entitled La Tribuna de America. Granados distributed this newspaper free of charge…
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