U.S. v. JACKSON

No. 89-2737.

901 F.2d 83 (1990)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. John Edward JACKSON, Jr., Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided April 30, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Andrew B. Baker, Jr., Asst. U.S. Atty., Hammond, Ind., David H. Miller, Fort Wayne, Ind., for plaintiff-appellee.

Christopher C. Myers, Myers & Wagoner, Fort Wayne, Ind., for defendant-appellant.

Before CUDAHY and POSNER, Circuit Judges, and PELL, Senior Circuit Judge.


POSNER, Circuit Judge.

The defendant was convicted of possession of cocaine with intent to distribute it, and he appeals, challenging the admission into evidence of the cocaine found on his person during the search of an apartment not his own. According to the police officers' version of the incident, which the district judge was entitled to believe and did believe, they were in the midst of searching the apartment with the permission of its occupant when John Jackson...

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