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U.S. v. ACOSTA

Nos. 06-1519, 06-1757, 06-1777, 06-1801, 06-1963, 06-2268, 06-2333, 06-2594.

534 F.3d 574 (2008)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Nicolas J. ACOSTA, Ernesto Estrada III, Gregorio M. Acosta, Jr., Jorge N. Barragan, Jr., Pedro Zamora, Florentino Castillo, Donald K. Fairbanks, and Robert G. Smith, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided July 15, 2008.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John W. Vaudreuil (submitted), Laura A. Przybylinski (argued), Office of the United States Attorney, Madison, WI, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Ronald G. Benavides, Krista Ralston (argued), University of Wisconsin Law School, Sarah M. Schmeiser (argued), Schmeiser Law Office, T. Christopher Kelly (argued), Kelly & Habermehl, Madison, WI, John A. Birdsall (argued), Michael W. Schnake (argued), Milwaukee, WI, Pamela S. Moorshead (argued), Glendale, WI, Joseph L. Sommers (argued), Oregon, WI, for Defendants-Appellants.

Before ROVNER, WOOD, and SYKES, Circuit Judges.

SYKES, Circuit Judge.

The eight defendants in this case participated in what we have previously described as a "long-running" conspiracy involving the distribution of "vast amounts of crack cocaine" by the Latin Kings gang on the Lac Courte Oreilles Reservation in Northern Wisconsin. United States v. Acosta, 474 F.3d 999, 1000 (7th Cir.2007). Four of the defendants were convicted following a jury trial; the others pleaded guilty...

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