United States Tenth Circuit

Denial of a motion to suppress evidence in a prosecution for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine is reversed where, under the circumstances, an extended seizure of defendant's vehicle due to an officer's inability to read a lawfully displayed temporary registration tag was improper.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/23/2006
• Published 02/23/2006

Judges

• BALDOCK, Circuit Judge., Before McCONNELL and BALDOCK, Circuit Judges, and ARMIJO, District Judge.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• James A. Brown, Assistant United States Attorney (Eric F. Melgren, United States Attorney, with him on the brief), Topeka, KS, for Plaintiff-Appellee., B. Kay Huff, Lawrence, KS, for Defendant-Appellant.