U.S. v. BURTON

Nos. 90-1972, 90-2263.

937 F.2d 324 (1991)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Leroy BURTON and Tyrone Burton, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided July 12, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen P. Sinnott, Patricia B. Holmes, Asst. U.S. Attys., Crim.Div., Barry R. Elden, Asst. U.S. Atty., Criminal Receiving, Appellate Div., Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff-appellee.

Luis M. Galvan, Office of the Federal Public Defender, E. Duke McNeil, Chicago, Ill., for Leroy Burton.

Luis M. Galvan, Candice Green, Office of the Federal Public Defender, Chicago, Ill., for Tyrone Burton.

Before CUMMINGS, RIPPLE and KANNE, Circuit Judges.


CUMMINGS, Circuit Judge.

In February 1990 a jury convicted defendants Leroy Burton and Tyrone Burton on charges arising out of their participation in an interstate scheme to steal and resell tires and trucks. Leroy allegedly had hired his brother Tyrone and others to steal tires from warehouses in Michigan, Missouri and Indiana. Participants in the tire theft ring located promising sites, drove to them, loaded trucks found at the sites with stolen tires and drove...

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