United States Tenth Circuit

Defendant's conviction for possession of an unregistered shotgun with a barrel less than 18 inches long is reversed where, when an officer entered defendant's wife's car and directed her to drive to a nearby parking lot, she was seized under the Fourth Amendment, and thus her purported consent to a subsequent search was tainted by an illegal seizure.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/22/2010
• Published 03/22/2010

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• United States Tenth Circuit

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