U.S. v. CEA

No. 89-1796.

914 F.2d 881 (1990)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Lautaro CEA, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided September 26, 1990.

As Amended October 10, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas M. Durkin, Asst. U.S. Atty. Office of the U.S. Atty. and Joan G. Fickinger, Asst. U.S. Atty., Office of the U.S. Atty., Criminal Receiving, Appellate Div., Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff-appellee.

Sidney I. Schenkier, Jerold S. Solovy, and Daniel Lynch, Jenner & Block, Chicago, Ill., for defendant-appellant.

Before WOOD, Jr., and RIPPLE, Circuit Judges, and ESCHBACH, Senior Circuit Judge.


HARLINGTON WOOD, Jr., Circuit Judge.

This is a "reverse buy" drug case developed by agents of the Drug Enforcement Administration ("DEA") in cooperation with Illinois State Police posing as drug sellers instead of in their more common role as drug purchasers.

In August 1988, the defendants Lautaro Cea1 and Eduardo Quinto2 were charged with one count of conspiracy...

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