United States Eighth Circuit

Partial grant and denial of defendant's motion to suppress evidence in a prosecution for manufacturing methamphetamine is reversed in part and dismissed in part where: 1) the court lacked jurisdiction over defendant's cross-appeal concerning items found in a motel room as the right of interlocutory appeal from a district court's decision on a motion to suppress is the government's alone; and 2) the district court erred in finding that defendant's statements to police were the fruit of an illegal search as defendant failed to provide a causal nexus between an illegal search of her purse and the statements.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/01/2007
• Published 06/01/2007

Judges

• BOWMAN, Circuit Judge., Before RILEY, BOWMAN, and ARNOLD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Thomas J. Kangior, argued, Asst. United States Attorney, Omaha, NE, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• John D. McDermott, argued, Omaha, NE, for appellee.