United States Seventh Circuit

Convictions and sentences for numerous drug charges are affirmed over defendants' arguments that: 1) admission of certain testimony of an FBI agent was an abuse of discretion; 2) the denial of a challenge to the prosecution's striking of an African-American juror was clearly erroneous; 3) the government's closing argument violated their right not to testify and their motion for mistrial was improperly denied; 4) a defendant's constitutional rights were violated by the admission of post-arrest statements; 5) the court improperly admitted hearsay statements and testimony from law enforcement agents about their assignments; and 6) the district court erred in sentencing.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/30/2007
• Decided 07/20/2007
• Published 07/20/2007

Judges

• EVANS, Circuit Judge., Before EASTERBROOK, Chief Judge, and RIPPLE and EVANS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Edward M. Genson, Genson & Gillespie, Marc E. Martin (argued), Chicago, IL, for DeAngelo McMahan (Dkt. 05-3379)., Thomas L. Shriner, Jr., Foley & Lardner, Milwaukee, WI, Glen H. Kanwit, Thomas K. Anderson (argued), Foley & Lardner, Chicago, IL, for Brian Nelson (Dkt. 05-3645)., Steven Saltzman (argued), Chicago, IL, for Antonio McMahan (Dkt. 05-3648)., Gerald J. Collins (argued), Chicago, IL, for Deshun Smith (Dkt. 05-3667)., T. Lee Boyd, Jr. (argued), Chicago, IL, for Gino McMahan (Dkt. 05-3739).


• For Appellees:
  
• Michael Donovan (argued), Office of the U.S. Attorney, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellee.