United States Ninth Circuit

U.S. Marshals searched a bedroom in which defendant was found pursuant to consent from a resident who had apparent authority to consent. The Marshals' order that defendant show his hands constituted a reasonable seizure under the Fourth Amendment.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/05/2002
• Decided 01/13/2003
• Published 01/13/2003

Judges

• Before: D.W. NELSON and T.G. NELSON, Circuit Judges, and SCHWARZER, District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Vincent J. Brunkow,Federal Defenders of San Diego, Inc., San Diego, CA, for the defendant-appellant., Patrick K. O'Toole, United States Attorney (when brief was filed), Carol C. Lam, United States Attorney (when opinion was filed), Jill L. Burkhardt, Assistant United States Attorney, San Diego, CA, for the plaintiff-appellee., Jill Burkhardt, Assistant United States Attorney, San Diego, CA, for the plaintiff-appellee.