Opinion ID: 785776
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Heading: Miller Refers Gaskin to a Lawyer to Assist in the Gahr/Ruffin Case

Text: 20 Kevin Miller testified that he met Gaskin in April 1999, when the two men were coincidentally traveling together by train from California to Chicago. Gaskin confided that he was in the marijuana business and that two of his couriers had recently been arrested in Illinois. Miller recommended Chicago lawyer Mustapha Muhammad and used Gaskin's cell phone to call Muhammad from the train. Gaskin's telephone records corroborated this call and also showed repeated calls at about the same time from the cell phone to defendant Castle. In Chicago, Gaskin and Miller met with Muhammad, after which Gaskin paid Miller $200 to visit Ruffin (which Miller did not do), before Gaskin boarded a train for Rochester. According to telephone records, Gaskin's first cell phone call upon arriving in Rochester was to Castle. 21