United States Second Circuit

In a drug conspiracy prosecution, the district court's order, suppressing narcotics seized by law enforcement officers during a warrantless search of a trailer, is reversed where the search was lawful under the "automobile exception" to the Fourth Amendment's warrant requirement.

Appellate Information

• Argued 01/27/2010
• Decided 03/08/2010
• Published 03/08/2010

Judges

• WESLEY, Circuit Judge:, Before LEVAL and WESLEY, Circuit Judges, and GLEESON, District Judge.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Telemachus P. Kasulis, Assistant United States Attorney (Katherine Polk Failla, Assistant United States Attorney, on the brief), for Preet Bharara, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, New York, NY, for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Patrick J. Joyce, New York, NY, for Appellee, Jose Navas., Lawrence D. Gerzog, New York, NY, for Appellee, Jose Alvarez., Susan G. Kellman, Brooklyn, NY, for Appellee, Arturo Morel.