United States Seventh Circuit

Denial of defendants' motion to dismiss an indictment in a RICO prosecution for conspiracy to conduct an enterprise's affairs through a pattern of racketeering activity is affirmed over defendants' double jeopardy arguments where there was no basis at this preliminary stage for assuming that the government will fail to prove separate conspiracies.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/29/2007
• Decided 06/13/2007
• Published 06/13/2007

Judges

• POSNER, Circuit Judge., Before POSNER, WOOD, and SYKES, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Mitchell A. Mars (argued), Office of the United States Attorney, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellee., Joseph R. Lopez (argued), Michael W. Martin, Chicago, IL, for Defendants-Appellants.