United States Tenth Circuit

Defendant's marijuana possession conviction is affirmed where defendant's daughter had actual authority to consent to the police's home visit and the officers properly relied on her consent, and thus the district court properly denied defendant's motion to suppress.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/15/2010
• Published 06/15/2010

Judges

• TYMKOVICH, Circuit Judge., Before LUCERO, BALDOCK, and TYMKOVICH, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Alonzo Padilla, Assistant Federal Public Defender, Office of the Federal Public Defender, Albuquerque, NM, for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Nicholas J. Ganjei, Assistant United States Attorney (Gregory J. Fouratt, United States Attorney, and Joel R. Meyers, Assistant United States Attorney, with him on the brief), Office of the United States Attorney, Albuquerque, NM, for Appellee.