United States Seventh Circuit

Conviction for illegal possession of guns and ammunition is affirmed where the evidence was legally seized by police in response to a semi-anonymous tip that gave them reasonable suspicion that the car contained weapons, and the police also had an independent legal basis for stopping the car.

Appellate Information

• Argued 01/27/2009
• Decided 03/12/2009
• Published 03/12/2009

Judges

• POSNER, Circuit Judge., Before POSNER, ROVNER, and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Rita M. Rumbelow (argued), Office of the United States Attorney, Madison, WI, for Plaintiff-Appellee., John Gekas, (argued), Kirkland & Ellis, Chicago, IL, Defendant-Appellant.