United States v. Stevenson, No. 11-2355 (7th Cir. 2012)
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After observing defendant and another selling crack cocaine, officers recruited a customer as a confidential informant and executed three controlled buys with audio and video surveillance. At trial defendant challenged the officers’ searches of the informant before the buys and failure to fingerprint baggies. The Seventh Circuit affirmed the conviction, rejecting a challenge to the sufficiency of the evidence, and the sentence of 158 months of incarceration, eight months above the recommended guidelines. The court rejected an argument based on the disparity between his sentence and that of his partner, who received only 134 months.
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