United States Eighth Circuit

In a prosecution for illegal possession of a firearm, grant of defendant's motion to suppress evidence is reversed and remanded where, even though the evidence was the fruit of an improperly extended traffic stop, the dog sniff which resulted in the seizure of evidence was not a result of that improper extension.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/14/2008
• Published 05/14/2008

Judges

• MELLOY, Circuit Judge., Before BYE, JOHN R. GIBSON, and MELLOY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Mark E. Salter, AUSA, argued, Jeffrey C. Clapper, on the brief, Sioux Falls, SD, for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Scott M. Ellison, argued, Corpus Christi, TX, for Appellee.