Gregory Chandler - Drug litigation

I have done articles about United States v. Roe, 210 F. 3d 741 (7th Cir. 2000) in the past. In the appeal the 7th Circuit affirmed a conviction for conspiring to distribute cocaine, the court found no error in the admission of the defendant's 1989 conviction for the same offense. The defendant had introduced testimony from police officers that no drug paraphernalia was ever found at his house and no evidence of drug activity was ever found in his trash because the defendant never placed trash in front of his residence. The Court opined that the earlier conviction helped to explain why the defendant would not keep drug paraphernalia at his residence and why he did not put out trash in front of his residence for collection by municipal trash collection crews.


GREGORY CHANDLER, Attorney at Law