United States Sixth Circuit

Denials of a motion to suppress evidence underlying defendant's plea of guilty to drug-related charges, as well as a motion to compel discovery of certain materials, are affirmed over claims that: 1) an officer had no basis for subjecting a package to extra scrutiny at an airport mail facility; 2) although concededly the package would inevitably have been discovered, defendant's alleged beating at the hands of an officer should preclude application of the inevitable discovery doctrine; and 3) the district court erred in refusing to compel discovery because Fed. R. Crim. P. 26.2 and 16(a)(1)(F) mandate discovery of statements and polygraph results, respectively.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/18/2008
• Published 08/18/2008

Judges

• Before: BOGGS, Chief Judge;  and RYAN and COLE, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Jonathan P. Witmer-Rich, Federal Public Defender's Office, Cleveland, Ohio, for Appellant.  Vasile C. Katsaros, Assistant United States Attorney, Cleveland, Ohio, for Appellee.   ON BRIEF:  Jonathan P. Witmer-Rich, Edward G. Bryan, Federal Public Defender's Office, Cleveland, Ohio, for Appellant.  Vasile C. Katsaros, Assistant United States Attorney, Cleveland, Ohio, for Appellee.