United States Tenth Circuit

Motion to suppress evidence properly denied, where a legal police ruse -- the staging of a drug checkpoint -- caused defendant to voluntarily abandon drugs, which were then seized by authorities.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/25/2002
• Published 10/25/2002

Judges

• SEYMOUR, Circuit Judge., Before SEYMOUR, BALDOCK, and BRISCOE, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Donn F. Baker of Baker & Baker, Tahlequah, OK, for Defendant-Appellant., D. Michael Littlefield, Assistant United States Attorney (Sheldon J. Sperling, United States Attorney, with him on the brief), Muskogee, OK, for Plaintiff-Appellee.