United States Seventh Circuit

Given DEA agents' experience with drug transactions, their observation of a pattern of events that they reasonably recognized as common in drug deals, and the lack of plausible innocent explanation, agents had probable cause to arrest defendants.

Appellate Information

• Argued 01/21/2003
• Decided 04/29/2003
• Published 04/29/2003

Judges

• KANNE, Circuit Judge., Before POSNER, KANNE, and DIANE P. WOOD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• David E. Bindi (argued), Office of the U.S. Atty., Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Irving B. Miller (argued), Ryan Miller & Trafelet, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellee Lorenzo Funches., Terence P. Gillespie, Chicago, IL, Sang Shim (argued), Skokie, IL, for Defendant-Appellee Carlos D. Monoz., Richard M. Beuke, Chicago, IL, Sang Shim (argued), Skokie, IL, for Defendant-Appellee Juan C. Toro.