United States Tenth Circuit

The district court's suppression of evidence seized pursuant to a warrantless administrative search is reversed where it erred by summarily rejecting the officers' good-faith reliance on the constitutionality of Oklahoma's administrative inspection statutes.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/02/2005
• Published 06/02/2005

Judges

• STEPHEN H. ANDERSON, Circuit Judge., Before TACHA, Chief Circuit Judge, ANDERSON, and O'BRIEN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Richard A. Friedman, Appellate Section, Criminal Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, DC (Robert C. McCampbell, United States Attorney, and Edward J. Kumiega, Assistant United States Attorney, Western District of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK, with him on the briefs), for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Paul Antonio Lacy, Assistant Federal Public Defender, Oklahoma City, OK, for Defendant-Appellee.