United States Fifth Circuit

A firearm found during a warrantless vehicle search should have been suppressed where defendant was secured 25 feet from the vehicle at the time of the search, and no danger to the officers or the public existed. Intercepted wire communications were authenticated, and exempting DEA agents from sequestration was not erroneous.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/11/2003
• Published 03/11/2003

Judges

• CARL E. STEWART, Circuit Judge:, Before GARWOOD, JONES and STEWART, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Lyman Edgar Thornton, III (argued) and Robert William Piedrahita, Asst. U.S. Attys., Baton Rouge, LA, for Plaintiff-Appellee., J. David Bourland (argued), Baton Rouge, LA, for Defendant-Appellant.