United States Tenth Circuit

Denial of a motion to suppress evidence in a prosecution for possession with intent to distribute cocaine is affirmed where a trooper who effected a traffic stop because an out-of-state temporary registration permit was not displayed on the rear of the car, as required by Kansas law, did not act unreasonably for purposes of the Fourth Amendment.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/03/2008
• Published 03/04/2008

Judges

• GORSUCH, Circuit Judge., Before TACHA, ANDERSON, and GORSUCH, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Melody Evans, Assistant Federal Public Defender (David J. Phillips, Federal Public Defender, with her on the briefs), Topeka, Kansas, for Defendant-Appellant., James A. Brown, Assistant United States Attorney (Eric F. Melgren, United States Attorney, with him on the brief), Topeka, Kansas, for Plaintiff-Appellee.