U.S. v. DENNIS

No. 06-2799.

497 F.3d 765 (2007)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. William DENNIS, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided August 16, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stuart D. Fullerton, Joel Hammerman (argued), Office of the United States Attorney, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Terence F. MacCarthy, Matthew J. Madden (argued), Office of the Federal Defender Program, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellant.

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


BAUER, Circuit Judge.

William Dennis was convicted of conspiring with David Cruz between March 21 and 22, 2005 to violate federal firearms laws, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 371. In this appeal, Dennis contends that the district court improperly admitted evidence of the fact that he had accompanied Cruz on a gun-trafficking trip in November of 2004. For the following reasons, we affirm Dennis' conviction.

I. Background

In the fall of 2004, the...

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