U.S. v. SOWEMIMO

No. 01-3558, 01-3559, 01-3683.

335 F.3d 567 (2003)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Kamorudeen SOWEMIMO, Robert Thomas, and Cornell Green, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided July 7, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

Frederick F. Cohn (argued), Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellant, Kamorudeen Sowemimo.

Robert A. Handelsman (argued), Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellant, Robert Thomas.

Matthew M. Robinson (argued), Robinson Brandt Law Offices, Cincinnati, OH, for Defendant-Appellant, Cornell Green.

Before KANNE, DIANE P. WOOD, and EVANS, Circuit Judges.


DIANE P. WOOD, Circuit Judge.

This appeal comes to us from three members of a large heroin distribution organization in Chicago. Cornell Green, the organization's mastermind and leader, Robert Thomas, one of his key supervisors, and Kamorudeen Sowemimo, a Nigerian heroin importer, were indicted along with twelve other members of the organization. Green and Sowemimo each pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute heroin, the first count of a...

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