United States Eleventh Circuit

Conviction for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon is affirmed over defendant's claims that: 1) the district court erred by denying a motion to suppress a pistol found by a police officer under the floor mat in the passenger's compartment of a taxicab in which he was riding; and 2) his statements made to federal ATF agents while being held in state custody on state criminal charges (but before he was charged in the instant case) were inadmissible for violating his Sixth Amendment right to counsel.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/08/2008
• Published 05/08/2008

Judges

• PER CURIAM:, Before TJOFLAT, ANDERSON and HULL, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Richard Brooks Holcomb and Stephanie Kearns, Federal Public Defenders, Federal Defender Program, Inc., Atlanta, GA, for Defendant-Appellant., Todd C. Alley, Amy Levin Weil, U.S. Atty., Atlanta, GA, for Plaintiff-Appellee.