U.S. v. PILLADO

Nos. 10-1081, 10-1083, 10-1202.

656 F.3d 754 (2011)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Israel PILLADO, Irineo Gonzalez, and Leobardo Lara, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided September 7, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph C. Pedersen (argued), Attorney, Office of the United States Attorney, Rockford, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Mark A. Byrd (argued), Attorney, Byrd & Taylor, Rockford, IL, for Defendant-Appellant in No. 10-1081.

John M. Nelson (argued), Attorney, Rockford, IL, for Defendant-Appellant in No. 10-1083.

Daniel P. Albers (argued), Attorney, Barnes & Thornburg, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellant in No. 10-1202.

Before EASTERBROOK, Chief Judge, and WOOD and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.


WOOD, Circuit Judge.

A law enforcement operation that began with the promising interdiction of 943 kilograms of marijuana, shipped from Jalisco, Mexico, ended less than admirably. When government agents executed a "controlled delivery" to an address in McHenry, Illinois, close to the one on the shipping manifest (the address listed did not exist), they arrested five people. By the government's own account, three persons ensnared in the sting operation had no prior...

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