United States Ninth Circuit

In circumstances where a defendant had been pulled over by officers for failure to display a visible license plate or registration tag, a conviction for being a felon in possession of a firearm is affirmed over a challenge to denial of a motion to suppress evidence where: 1) officers' questioning of defendant did not extend the duration of a lawful stop; and 2) thus, their expanded questioning need not have been supported by separate reasonable suspicion. (Superseding opinion)

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/16/2006
• Decided 02/23/2007
• Published 02/23/2007

Judges

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

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Jon M. Sands & Michael D. Gordon, Federal Public Defender, Phoenix, AZ, for the defendant-appellant., Paul K. Charlton, John Joseph Tuchi & Bill C. Solomon, United States Attorney, Phoenix, AZ, for the plaintiff-appellee.