United States Sixth Circuit

Exigent circumstances did not support a first vehicle search, and any alleged oral consent to a second vehicle search was not a act of free will sufficient to purge the taint of the first illegal search.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/16/2002
• Published 08/16/2002

Judges

• Before:  BOGGS and CLAY, Circuit Judges;  ROBERTS, District Judge.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Richard Leigh Grinalds, Asst. U.S. Attorney, Lennard B. Register, III (argued and briefed), Office of the U.S. Attorney, Jackson, TN, for Plaintiff-Appellee., C. Mark Donahoe (argued and briefed), Byrd, Donahoe & Byrd, Jackson, TN, for Defendant-Appellant.