United States Eighth Circuit

A conviction for a drug-related offense is affirmed over a claim of erroneous denial of a motion to suppress where the totality of the circumstances indicated that defendant's consent was an act of free will and an independent intervening cause of the discovery of contraband in her vehicle, sufficient to cure the taint of any prior Fourth Amendment violation.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/16/2007
• Published 08/16/2007

Judges

• Before MURPHY, HANSEN, and COLLOTON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Sean Joseph Brennan, argued, Lincoln, NE, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Sara Elizabeth Fullerton, AUSA, argued, Lincoln, NE, for appellee.