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U.S. v. WILLIAMS

Nos. 92-2794, 92-2796 to 92-2799, 92-2849 and 94-1517.

81 F.3d 1434 (1996)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Edward WILLIAMS, et al., Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided April 23, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Barry Rand Elden, Chief of Appeals (argued), Office of the United States Attorney, Criminal Appellate Division, Chicago, IL, for U.S. in Nos. 92-2794, 92-2797, 92-2799 and 92-2849.

Theodore T. Poulos, Barry Rand Elden, Chief of Appeals (argued), Office of the United States Attorney, Criminal Appellate Division, Chicago, IL, for U.S. in Nos. 92-2796 and 92-2798.

William R. Hogan, Office of the United States Attorney, Criminal Division, Barry Rand Elden, Chief of Appeals (argued), Office of the United States Attorney, Criminal Appellate Division, Chicago, IL, for U.S. in No. 94-1517.

Jerry B. Kurz (argued), Hall & Kurz, Chicago, IL, for Edward S. Williams.

Carl P. Clavelli (argued), Chicago, IL, for Jerome A. Crowder.

Robert G. Clarke (argued), Chicago, IL, for Thomas L. Bates.

Donald Paull, Robert G. Clarke (argued), Chicago, IL, for Louis Hoover.

Richard C. Leng, Leng, Stowell, Friedman & Vernon, Kent R. Carlson (argued), Chicago, IL, for Bernard Green.

Keith Spielfogel, Robert G. Clarke (argued), Chicago, IL, for Roland Lewis.

Before POSNER, Chief Judge, and MANION and DIANE P. WOOD, Circuit Judges.

POSNER, Chief Judge.

The El Rukns were a street gang active on Chicago's south side for two decades ending in the late 1980s. The gang's main activity was the sale of illegal drugs. Its members committed many murders, and engaged in much other violence, in the turf wars that are endemic to the trade in illegal drugs. The trial from which these appeals come to us was the last of five trials in the Northern District of Illinois of different leaders of the El Rukns....

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