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U.S. v. EVANS

Nos. 94-3633, 94-3690, 94-3691, 94-3727 and 95-3112.

92 F.3d 540 (1996)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Marcus O. EVANS, Samuel Tidwell, Gregory Fort, and Helen L. Fort, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided August 9, 1996.

Rehearing and Suggestion for Rehearing Denied September 19, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Barry Rand Elden, Chief of Appeals, Office of the U.S. Atty., Crim. Appellate Div., Chicago, IL, John G. McKenzie, Keith C. Syfert, Office of the U.S. Atty., Rockford, IL, Elizabeth Collery (argued), Dept. of Justice, Crim. Div., Washington, DC, for the U.S. in No. 94-3633.

Barry Rand Elden, Chief of Appeals, Office of the U.S. Atty., Crim. Appellate Div., Chicago, IL, Elizabeth Collery (argued), Dept. of Justice, Crim. Div., Washington, DC, for the U.S. in Nos. 94-3690, 94-3691, 94-3727 and 95-3112.

Gary Seeling (argued), Waukesha, WI, for Marcus Evans.

Howard B. Levy (argued), Chicago, IL, for Samuel Tidwell in Nos. 94-3690, 95-3112.

Douglass C. Hochstetler (argued), Marshall, O'Toole, Gerstein, Murray & Borun, Chicago, IL, for Greg Fort.

Mark A. Byrd (argued), Byrd & Taylor, Rockford, IL, for Helen L. Fort.

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

Rehearing and Suggestion for Rehearing En Banc Denied in No. 94-3691 September 19, 1996.

POSNER, Chief Judge.

The four defendants who are the appellants in this court were tried together before a jury for offenses relating to the sale of powder and crack cocaine and were convicted. Three were sentenced to life imprisonment without possibility of parole and the fourth (Helen Fort) to 26 years. We count 29 separate issues and 390 pages of briefs in these appeals...

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