United States Sixth Circuit

In a prosecution of defendant for being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition, district court's suppression of physical evidence and defendant's statements during the encounter with the police officers, in ruling that defendant had been illegally seized is affirmed where: 1) district court correctly determined that officers seized defendant without reasonable suspicion of criminal activity; and 2) neither the officer's hunch that defendant might have an outstanding warrant nor defendant's statement purged the incriminating evidence of the taint of the unlawful seizure.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/30/2010
• Decided 08/06/2010
• Published 08/06/2010

Judges

• MOORE

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Michael J. Hunter, Kevin Michael Schad