UNITED STATES v. GARCIA

Nos. 79-1470, 1471 and 1472.

625 F.2d 162 (1980)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Eugene Pete GARCIA, Defendant-Appellant. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Joe Anthony CONTRERAS and David Lucero, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided July 8, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David E. Booth, Federal Public Defender, East St. Louis, Ill., Russell W. Hartigan, Chicago, Ill., for defendant-appellant.

Theodore J. MacDonald, Asst. U. S. Atty., East St. Louis, Ill., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before CASTLE, Senior Circuit Judge, PELL and SPRECHER, Circuit Judges.


PELL, Circuit Judge.

Appellants Eugene Pete Garcia, Joe Anthony Contreras, and David Lucero, inmates at the federal penitentiary at Marion, Illinois, were convicted by a jury of second degree murder and the illegal conveyance of a weapon within the prison, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1111, and 1792, respectively. The convictions arose out of the violent killing of Michael Martinez, another inmate at Marion, who...

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