United States First Circuit

In a prosecution of defendant for being a felon in possession of a firearm, district court's denial of a motion to suppress a gun recovered from defendant following a traffic stop is affirmed as a police officer may request identifying information from passengers in a vehicle stopped for a traffic violation without particularized suspicion that the passengers pose a safety risk or are violating the law.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/01/2010
• Published 04/01/2010

Judges

• LIPEZ, Circuit Judge., Before BOUDIN, STAHL and LIPEZ, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Thomas J. Iovieno, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Cynthia A. Young, Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Michael K. Loucks, Acting United States Attorney, was on brief, for appellee.