Legal Opinion
United States v. Gaytan
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 12, 2011No. 09-3601PublishedCited by 44 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SYKES, Circuit Judge.
Kenneth Gaytan was indicted for distribution of crack cocaine based on two controlled buys arranged by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in which Gaytan sold substantial quantities of crack to a confidential informant named James Worthen. The FBI captured the negotiations and both transactions on audio recordings. Agents also conducted visual and video surveillance of the controlled buys, but because of gaps in this surveillance, they did not actually see — and the video recordings do not show — money and drugs changing hands. Nor did the government produce Worthen to…
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