U.S. v. PHILLIPS

Nos. 93-2170, 93-3352.

37 F.3d 1210 (1994)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Steven D. PHILLIPS and Willie B. Meredith, Jr., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided October 6, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas Edward Leggans, Office of U.S. Atty., Crim. Div., Fairview Heights, IL (argued), Michael C. Carr, Asst. U.S. Atty., Benton, IL, for U.S.

John D. Long, Patrick Moloney Long (argued), Chicago, IL, for Steven D. Phillips.

Samuel G. Beggs, Harrisburg, IL (argued), for Willie B. Meredith, Jr.

Before WOOD, Jr., COFFEY, and KANNE, Circuit Judges.


KANNE, Circuit Judge.

Tyrone A. Johnson, Willie B. Meredith, Jr., Anson Young, Stacy Shipp, and Steven Phillips were all charged with conspiring to distribute more than five kilograms of cocaine in Jefferson County, Illinois. Only two of the five defendants, Willie B. Meredith and Steven Phillips, are parties to this consolidated appeal.

Most of the factual circumstances of this conspiracy are immaterial for our purposes. In a nutshell, Tyrone Johnson operated...

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