United States Ninth Circuit
US v. RIDGWAY, 01-30337
A district court must conduct its own evidentiary hearing before rejecting a magistrate judge's credibility findings made after a hearing on a motion to suppress.
Appellate Information
- Argued 08/07/2002
- Decided 08/26/2002
- Published 08/26/2002
Judges
- ALARCON, Circuit Judge., Before: B. FLETCHER, ALARCON, and GRABER, Circuit Judges.
Court
- United States Ninth Circuit
Counsel
- For Appellees:
- Sue Ellen Tatter and Mary C. Geddes, Assistant Federal Defenders, Anchorage, AK, for the defendant-appellant., Stephen Cooper, Assistant United States Attorney, Fairbanks, AK, for the plaintiff-appellee.