United States Ninth Circuit

Denial of a motion to suppress evidence and defendant's conditional conviction for driving while his license was suspended and for driving in possession of an open container of alcohol are affirmed where a brief stop of defendant at an information station operated by the Bureau of Land Management was a valid seizure under the Fourth Amendment.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/16/2006
• Decided 06/13/2006
• Published 06/13/2006

Judges

• TALLMAN, Circuit Judge., Before STEPHEN REINHARDT, RICHARD A. PAEZ, and RICHARD C. TALLMAN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Mark A. Lizarraga, Assistant Federal Public Defender, Fresno, CA, for the defendant-appellant., Stanley A. Boone, Assistant United States Attorney, Fresno, CA, for the plaintiff-appellee.