United States Sixth Circuit

A handgun seized during a car stop was properly admitted into evidence where police officers had reasonable suspicion that defendant was loitering for prostitution to justify the stop, and the gun was discovered in a search incident to arrest upon valid probable cause.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/06/2002
• Published 05/06/2002

Judges

• Before: MARTIN, Chief Circuit Judge;  GILMAN, Circuit Judge;  EDMUNDS, District Judge.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Charles P. Wisdom, Jr. (briefed), Asst. U.S. Attorney, Joseph L. Famularo, Office of the U.S. Attorney, Lexington, KY, Laura K. Voorhees (briefed), Asst. U.S. Attorney, Covington, KY, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• James Stephen Smith (briefed), Ziegler & Schneider, Covington, KY, Timothy Martin, Federal Correctional Institute, Beckley, WV, for Defendant-Appellee.