United States First Circuit

District court judgment denying a motion to suppress evidence is affirmed where the court properly ruled that the storage closet in question, although not itself within the apartment or separately specified in the warrant, was appurtenant to the apartment and therefore validly searched.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/13/2009
• Published 08/13/2009

Judges

• SELYA, Circuit Judge., Before BOUDIN, SELYA and DYK, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Ryan M. Schiff, with whom Salsberg & Schneider was on brief, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• F. Thompson Reece, Special Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Michael J. Sullivan, United States Attorney, Anthony E. Fuller and George W. Vien, Assistant United Attorneys, were on brief, for appellee.