United States Tenth Circuit

In a search-and-seizure case where there was no traffic stop and instead defendant was parked at a gas station when nearby police began questioning him, his conviction for drug-related offenses is affirmed over a claim of erroneous denial of a suppression motion as: 1) the detention was supported by reasonable suspicion, and thus it neither violated the Fourth Amendment nor tainted the search that followed it; and 2) a search of the vehicle was consensual.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/03/2007
• Published 01/03/2007

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• United States Tenth Circuit

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