United States v. Mockabee, No. 11-2288 (7th Cir. 2014)
Annotate this CaseThe Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department and the FBI conducted an investigation of a suspected cocaine-distribution organization, employing various investigative techniques, including interviews of confidential informants and suspects, surveillance, staged or controlled drug purchases, and consensual (on one side) recording of telephone conversations. The investigation also involved court-authorized pen registers of telephone traffic, wiretaps of telephone conversations, and interdiction stops of selected individuals, which were often initiated on the basis of information gleaned from the wiretaps. In January 2010, a series of searches and arrests were effectuated and 20 defendants, including Mockabee, Jones, Drake, and Young, were indicted. Mockabee pleaded guilty, the other three were convicted. The Seventh Circuit affirmed the convictions of Jones, Drake, and Young, but vacated the sentences of Mockabee, Jones, and Drake and remanded for resentencing under the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010, 124 Stat 2372. The court rejected Jones’s challenges to the warrant and to the sufficiency of the evidence; Drake’s challenges to admission of a detective’s opinion testimony interpreting drug code language, restrictions on her cross-examination of that detective Clark, claimed prosecutorial misconduct during rebuttal argument; and Young’s challenge to the sufficiency of the evidence.
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