U.S. v. CORSON

Nos. 08-2094, 08-2675.

579 F.3d 804 (2009)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Marcus CORSON and Oscar Alvarez, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided August 27, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

Heather L. Winslow (argued), Patrick W. Blegen (argued), Blegen & Garvey, Chicago, IL, for Defendants-Appellants.

Before RIPPLE, MANION, and TINDER, Circuit Judges.


TINDER, Circuit Judge.

Marcus Corson and Oscar Alvarez were charged with two conspiracies, one to rob a drug stash house and the other to sell what they planned to steal. This seems straightforward enough. But there's a twist. There never was any stash house to rob. Nor were there any drugs. And the two people who introduced. Corson and Alvarez to the stash house plan never intended to rob anything. That's because one was a government agent and the other a confidential...

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