United States v. Coleman, No. 17-3636 (7th Cir. 2019)
Annotate this CaseColeman, a former Chicago police officer, was friends with cousins Davis and Conway. In 2014, Coleman served on the Operation Five Leaf Clover drug investigation task force, which began to focus on people whom Coleman knew, including Davis. The Operation was preparing to execute search and arrest warrants but, before the bust, the targets learned about it. Conway testified that on June 9, 2014, he received a call from an unknown woman who told him to call Coleman, who warned him about the impending searches and told him to pass the message along to Davis. Conway did so. The Operation had wiretapped numerous phones and heard two men say that someone “on the task force” had given them a warning call. The contraband was moved to a house that the Operation had not known about but officers were monitoring the person Davis called. The Operation then obtained a search warrant for the new house and recovered the contraband. Coleman was convicted of obstruction of justice, 18 U.S.C. 1512(c)(2), and sentenced to 60 months’ imprisonment. The Seventh Circuit affirmed, rejecting claims of evidentiary errors, that the prosecution used perjured testimony, and that the court committed errors in selecting his sentence.
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