Opinion ID: 551535
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Heading: references to sawyer as boss man

Text: 49 Sawyer objects to repeated references to him as Boss and Boss Man by witnesses and in argument by the government. He claims undue prejudice, especially with regard to the CCE count and its element that he supervised, organized, or managed at least five people. The government's evidence established that Sawyer was known within the society of this conspiracy by these names. There was no error in the revelation of this fact nor in references to him by witnesses who knew him only by these monikers. See U.S. v. Hattaway, 740 F.2d 1419, 1425 (7th Cir.), cert. denied, 469 U.S. 1028, 105 S.Ct. 448, 83 L.Ed.2d 373 (1984). As we discuss later in this opinion, the nicknames were relevant to the CCE charge. The references in argument to the jury lie within the realm of reasonable argument. 50