United States Seventh Circuit

Convictions and sentences for drug and weapons charges are affirmed over defendants' arguments that: 1) the government's evidence was insufficient as a matter of law; 2) the district court erred in denying their motion for a mistrial after the government elicited testimony about their involvement in an earlier drug robbery that resulted in a murder; 3) such testimony, coupled with the district court's failure to give any curative instruction to the jury, deprived them of their right to a fair trial; 4) the district court erred in admitting recordings of conversations among the defendants; 5) the district court erred in enhancing one defendant's sentence for possession of firearms and refusing to reduce his sentence for his minor role in the offense; and 6) the other defendant's sentence was unreasonable.

Appellate Information

• Argued 01/09/2007
• Decided 09/07/2007
• Published 09/07/2007

Judges

• BAUER, Circuit Judge., Before BAUER, RIPPLE, and EVANS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Barry D. Glickman (argued), Office of the United States Attorney, Indianapolis, IN, for Plaintiff-Appellee., Carter C. Law (argued), Schriener Law, Clayton, MO, for Defendant-Appellant Emerson., James C. McKinley (argued), Indiana Federal Community Defenders, Inc., Indianapolis, IN, for Defendant-Appellant Ingram.