United States Eighth Circuit

Denial of a suppression motion in a prosecution for possession with intent to distribute and conspiracy to distribute marijuana is affirmed where defendant's overturned and abandoned rental vehicle was impounded according to standard North Dakota State Highway Patrol procedures, and marijuana found during a resultant inventory search was admissible.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/22/2007
• Published 01/22/2007

Judges

• MELLOY, Circuit Judge., Before LOKEN, Chief Judge, MELLOY, Circuit Judge, SCHILTZ, District Judge.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Paula Belford Hutchinson, Hutchinson Law Office, Lincoln, NE, for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Paul R. Emerson, U.S. Attorney's Office, Bismarck, ND, for Appellee.