A federal jury Tuesday convicted the head of the relentlessly violent Wicked Town street gang and held him responsible for six murders at the end of a two-month racketeering trial at the Dirksen Federal Courthouse.
One, Deshawn Morgan, even acknowledged sending a longtime friend to his death because of the mistaken suspicion that the friend had snitched on him to authorities.
Defense attorneys for Lee and Benson urged the jury not to trust such witnesses, arguing they were simply trying to shorten the lengthy prison sentences they are also likely to serve by telling lies to help prosecutors. Lee attorney Lisa Wood insisted the feds’ case amounted to a “house of cards” that would “crumble with just the slightest touch.”
Assistant U.S. Attorney John Mitchell countered that, if the defense attorneys’ argument about lying witnesses was true, the witnesses “would have told better lies.” “You don’t ever sell one of the guns that can save one of the guys’ life,” Lee told a fellow gang member in an April 2019 phone call, according to the evidence.Prosecutors said Lee rose within Wicked Town’s ranks
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Head of murderous Wicked Town street gang convicted by federal juryA federal jury Tuesday convicted the head of the relentlessly violent Wicked Town street gang and held him responsible for six murders at the end of a two-month racketeering trial at the Dirksen Federal Courthouse.
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