United States Tenth Circuit

Defendant's firearm possession conviction is affirmed where the good-faith exception to the exclusionary rule applied when an officer acted in reasonable reliance upon the circuit's settled case law that was later made unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/18/2009
• Published 12/18/2009

Judges

• PAUL KELLY, JR., Circuit Judge., Before KELLY, BALDOCK, and TYMKOVICH, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Submitted on the briefs:


• For Appellees:
  
• David Autry, Oklahoma City, OK, for Defendant-Appellant., John C. Richter, United States Attorney, Ashley L. Altshuler, Special Assistant United States Attorney, Edward J. Kumiega, Assistant United States Attorney, Oklahoma City, OK, for Plaintiff-Appellee.