United States Tenth Circuit

Mere temporary immobility of a car, due to a readily repairable problem while at an open public repair shop, does not remove a vehicle from the category of "readily mobile" under the automobile exception to the search warrant requirement.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/04/2002
• Published 10/04/2002

Judges

• McKAY, Circuit Judge., Before HARTZ, McKAY, and O'BRIEN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Stephen R. McCaughey, Salt Lake City, UT, for Defendant-Appellant., Wayne T. Dance, Assistant United States Attorney (Paul M. Warner, United States Attorney, with him on the brief), District of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, for Plaintiff-Appellee.