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U.S. v. MARRERO

Nos. 01-2283, 01-4078.

299 F.3d 653 (2002)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Edwin MARRERO and David Hernandez, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided August 5, 2002.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Reid J. Schar (argued), Office of the U.S. Atty., Chicago, IL, for United States.

Richard B. Kapnick (argued), Sidley Austin Brown & Wood, Chicago, IL, for Edwin Marreno.

Robert S. Nathan, Chicago, IL, for David Hernandez.

BEFORE: FLAUM, Chief Judge, and POSNER and ROVNER, Circuit Judges.

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

The defendants, "Little Bum" Marrero and "Fat Man" Hernandez, lured three drug dealers from Detroit to a rendezvous in Chicago on the pretext of selling them cocaine. When the dealers arrived, the defendants showed them what purported to be cocaine but was actually flour with a thin coating of cocaine, then robbed them at gunpoint of the $25,000 that the dealers had brought with them to make the purchase...

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