# United States v. Lee Stoller Enterprises, Inc., Lee Stoller, John M. Cooper, and John Maeras

> Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · June 30, 1981 · 652 F.2d 1313

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9468115

## Case

- **Full name:** UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. LEE STOLLER ENTERPRISES, INC., Lee Stoller, John M. Cooper, and John Maeras, Defendants-Appellants
- **Court:** Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
- **Decided:** June 30, 1981
- **Citations:** 652 F.2d 1313; 1981 U.S. App. LEXIS 11873
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Swygert
- **Judges:** Fairchild, Cudahy, Swygert, Cummings, Pell, Sprecher, Bauer
- **Cited by:** 56 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- noting that the trial protected “each defendant’s rights by instructing the jury that it should consider the evidence separately as to each defendant in each count.”
- finding that the office of Madison County Sheriff was a RICO enterprise
- holding Madison County Sheriffs Office, like other public entities, is a proper RICO enterprise

## Opinion text

SWYGERT, Circuit Judge,
dissenting.
Although I originally voted to reverse these convictions on the ground that the RICO statute could not be applied to public entities, 1 because of the Supreme Court’s decision in United States v. Turkette, - U.S. -, 101 S.Ct. 2524 , 69 L.Ed.2d 246 (1981), I am compelled to vote with the majority on the RICO issue. I join, however, in the dissents filed by Chief Judge Fairchild and Judge Cudahy on the issues of joinder and severance.
. See my dissent in United States v. Grzywacz, 603 F.2d 682, 690 (7th Cir. 1979), cert. denied. 446 U.S. 935 , 100 S.Ct. 2152 , 64 L.Ed.2d 788 (1980).

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