United States Fourth Circuit

The district court's grant of defendant's motion to suppress is reversed where the police officer's reliance on the search warrant for the contraband that precipitated defendant's arrest was objectively reasonable under US v. Leon, 468 U.S. 897 (1984).

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/29/2004
• Published 12/29/2004

Judges

• Before WILKINS, Chief Judge, TRAXLER, Circuit Judge, and Roger W. TITUS, United States District Judge for the District of Maryland, sitting by designation.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:Joshua Clarke Hanks, Assistant United States Attorney, Office of the United States Attorney, Charleston, West Virginia, for Appellant.  David Robert Bungard, Assistant Federal Public Defender, Office of the Federal Public Defender, Charleston, West Virginia, for Appellee. ON BRIEF:  Kasey Warner, United States Attorney, Charleston, West Virginia, for Appellant.  Mary Lou Newberger, Federal Public Defender, Charleston, West Virginia, for Appellee.