United States Second Circuit

In a prosecution for drug-related offenses, grant of a motion to suppress post-arrest statements and evidence obtained from defendant's apartment and car is reversed where agents had probable cause to arrest defendant based on known or reasonably trustworthy information possessed by agents.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/25/2008
• Published 07/25/2008

Judges

• FEINBERG, Circuit Judge:, Before:  FEINBERG, MINER, and B.D. PARKER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• James R. Smart, Assistant United States Attorney (Richard J. Schechter, Assistant United States Attorney, William J. Nardini, Assistant United States Attorney, Of Counsel, on the brief), for Kevin J. O'connor, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, New Haven, CT, for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Sarah F. Russell, Assistant Federal Defender, for Thomas G. Dennis, Federal Defender, New Haven, CT, for Defendant-Appellee.