United States Seventh Circuit

Convictions and sentences for drug trafficking offenses are affirmed over defendants' arguments that wire tap orders were unnecessary and that the district court: 1) should have granted a new trial based on a trial witness' purported admission of perjury; 3) should not have allowed a DEA Special Agent to testify as an expert witness on drug code language; 4) erred in determining the amount of drugs for purposes of calculating advisory Guideline sentencing ranges; and 5) erred by denying one defendant's motion for severance.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/04/2007
• Decided 07/23/2007
• Published 07/23/2007

Judges

• MANION, Circuit Judge., Before POSNER, MANION, and KANNE, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Matthew P. Brookman (argued), Office of the United States Attorney, Southern District of Indiana, Evansville, IN, for Plaintiff-Appellee., Glenn A. Grampp (argued), John A. Goodridge (argued), Evansville, IN, for Defendant-Appellant Goodwin., Chad E. Groves (argued), Wilson Womack & Groves, Henderson, KY, for Defendant-Appellant Phillips., John A. Goodridge (argued), Evansville, IN, for Defendant-Appellant Doerr., John W. Tullis, Owensboro, KY, for Defendant-Appellant Brown.