United States Tenth Circuit

Surveillance by agents and information from an informant, among other facts, provided sufficient justification for stop of defendant prior to his drug arrest; suppression of evidence obtained from pat-down search was improper where defendant's admission to illegal alien status prior to the search gave rise to probable cause to arrest.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/24/2002
• Published 04/24/2002

Judges

• BALDOCK, Circuit Judge., Before LUCERO, ANDERSON, and BALDOCK, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• James C. Murphy, Assistant United States Attorney (John W. Suthers, United States Attorney, and H. Wayne Campbell, Assistant United States Attorney, with him on the briefs), Denver, CO, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Stacey L. Ross, Springer and Steinberg, P.C., Denver, CO, for Defendant-Appellee.