U.S. v. YORK

No. 07-2032.

572 F.3d 415 (2009)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Darvell Dwayne YORK, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided July 15, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gayle Littleton, Attorney (argued), Office of the United States Attorney, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Brian Keenan, Attorney (argued), Thomas L. Shriner, Jr., Brian Keenan, Foley & Lardner, Milwaukee, WI, for Defendant-Appellant.

Before RIPPLE, MANION, and TINDER, Circuit Judges.


TINDER, Circuit Judge.

As Darvell York spoke to Tracy Mitchell about selling him "nine probably hard," law enforcement was listening. Agents had set up a sting to buy nine ounces of crack cocaine from York, and Mitchell was their informant. At York's trial, the government played the recorded conversations for the jury. Though York and Mitchell seemed to speak in plain English, without any reference to drugs, the government argued that they were really conversing in...

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