United States Eleventh Circuit

Defendant's conviction and sentence for armed bank robbery and carrying a firearm in relation to a crime of violence are affirmed where: 1) the contents of a pillowcase carried by defendant could be inferred from its outwardly visible stains and the circumstances under which the police obtained it, and thus defendant had no reasonable expectation of privacy in it; and 2) alleged prosecutorial misconduct did not affect defendant's substantial rights.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/06/2010
• Published 08/09/2010

Judges

• Beverly Martin

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel