United States Ninth Circuit

Denial of defendant's motion to suppress evidence related to her conviction for embezzlement of mail matter by a postal employee is affirmed since the warrantless search of defendant's vehicle was a contemporaneous incident of the custodial arrest of one of defendant's two passengers.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/09/2005
• Decided 01/10/2006
• Published 01/10/2006

Judges

• PREGERSON, Circuit Judge:, Before: PREGERSON, NOONAN, and THOMAS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Fred A. Rowley, Jr., Assistant United States Attorney, (argued) and Jaime Guerrero, Assistant United States Attorney (briefed), Los Angeles, CA, for the plaintiff/appellee., Elizabeth A. Newman, Deputy Federal Public Defender, Los Angeles, CA, for the defendant/appellant.