Rackeetering case against Chicago’s Goonie gang involving 10 slayings heads to jury
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In an unusual move, Blakey has bifurcated the closing arguments in the case. If the jury comes back with a guilty verdict on the racketeering charge against any of the three defendants, both sides will then argue the specific alleged acts of murder contained in the indictment, and the panel will then deliberate those counts.On trial are reputed Goonie leader Romeo “O-Dog” Blackman and two alleged henchmen, Terrance “T” Smith and Jolicious “Jo Jo” Turman.
In her closing argument Tuesday, Assistant U.S. Attorney Maureen McCurry said Blackman, who joined the gang as a young teen, literally “shot his way to the top,” turning the Goonies into a feared element in a neighborhood already beset by violence. “I think the evidence is frankly overwhelming that Romeo was in a gang, that he had guns, that he was out there probably shooting at people and telling other people to shoot,” Grohman said. “But he’s not charged with that.”That argument was echoed by attorneys for Turman and Smith, who said the Goonie gang brought in little in the way of money and appeared to serve no overarching purpose like drug trafficking, which is a common hallmark of street gangs.
Lyon said Hayes was a “bought witness,” a criminal who’d been paid thousands of dollars by law enforcement for information over the years and received immunity from prosecution.
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