United States Seventh Circuit

Conviction for possessing crack with intent to distribute is vacated where the officers who detained defendant did so without reasonable suspicion of criminal activity since the officer were mistaken about the law they believed defendant to have violated.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/27/2007
• Decided 01/10/2008
• Published 01/10/2008

Judges

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

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Daniel L. Bella, Sharon Johnson, Office of the United States Attorney, Hammond, IN, for Plaintiff-Appellee., R. Brian Woodward, Casale, Woodward & Buls, Merrillville, IN, for Defendant-Appellant.