UNITED STATES v. AMBROSE

Nos. 83-1213 to 83-1221, 83-1291.

740 F.2d 505 (1984)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Thomas AMBROSE, et al., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided July 17, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dan K. Webb, U.S. Atty., James G. Schweitzer, Asst. U.S. Atty., Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff-appellee.

Elliot Samuels, James B. Haddad, Michael Jay Green, Chicago, Ill., for defendants-appellants.

Before WOOD and POSNER, Circuit Judges, and REYNOLDS, Chief District Judge.


POSNER, Circuit Judge.

Ten former Chicago policemen — the "Marquette 10" as they came to be called in the course of their celebrated three-month trial — appeal from their convictions for protecting narcotics dealers in Chicago's Marquette district. The evidence, the sufficiency of which the defendants do not contest, shows that for more than three years the defendants protected two large drug distributorships in exchange for money and goods. They not...

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