United States Fourth Circuit

In a firearm possession prosecution, denial of defendant's motion to suppress the firearm seized from his house is affirmed where there was a sufficient basis for the magistrate who issued the warrant to conclude that there would be probable cause for the search.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/12/2009
• Published 08/12/2009

Judges

• Before TRAXLER, Chief Judge, GREGORY, Circuit Judge, and FREDERICK P. STAMP, JR., Senior United States District Judge for the Northern District of West Virginia, sitting by designation.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Stephen Clayton Gordon, Office of the Federal Public Defender, Raleigh, North Carolina, for Appellant.  Jennifer P. May-Parker, Office of the United States Attorney, Raleigh, North Carolina, for Appellee.   ON BRIEF:  Thomas P. McNamara, Federal Public Defender, Raleigh, North Carolina, for Appellant.  George E.B. Holding, United States Attorney, Anne M. Hayes, Assistant United States Attorney, Office of the United States Attorney, Raleigh, North Carolina, for Appellee.