U.S. v. McKINNEY

No. 90-1171.

954 F.2d 471 (1992)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. William K. McKINNEY, also known as Puppet, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided January 22, 1992.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied May 1, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard H. Lloyd, Asst. U.S. Atty. (argued), Office of U.S. Atty., Criminal Div., Fairview Heights, Ill., for plaintiff-appellee.

William Hardy (argued), Hinshaw & Culbertson, Springfield, Ill., for defendant-appellant.

Before COFFEY, RIPPLE and MANION, Circuit Judges.


Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied May 1, 1992.

MANION, Circuit Judge.

William "Puppet" McKinney appeals his conviction for conspiring to commit murder. We affirm.

I.

In 1983, William McKinney was an inmate at the United States Penitentiary at Marion, Illinois. McKinney was also a member of the Aryan Brotherhood, a rather notorious prison gang. See, e.g., United States v. Fountain,

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