United States Fourth Circuit

In a prosecution for possession of a firearm after a felony conviction, the district court's grant of a motion to suppress the firearm is reversed, where the police officers' actions were consistent with the Fourth Amendment, since in a threatening domestic situation, with information that at least a special needs child was in the home, they conducted a properly circumscribed protective sweep, which yielded the discovery of a firearm as that sweep continued.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/03/2012
• Published 05/03/2012

Judges

• Shedd

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• William J. Ihlenfeld, II, Brendan S. Leary