United States Ninth Circuit

A license plate check by a law enforcement officer that reveals information about a person's car ownership, driver status and criminal record does not constitute a search under the Fourth Amendment. Denial of a motion to suppress in a prosecution for illegal re-entry subsequent to an aggravated felony conviction is affirmed as defendant's Fourth Amendment rights were not violated when a sheriff stopped the truck in which he was a passenger, asked him for identification and checked his driver's license or Oregon identification card with radio dispatch.

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/17/2006
• Decided 07/18/2007
• Published 07/18/2007

Judges

• FISHER, Circuit Judge:, Before:  ALFRED T. GOODWIN, RAYMOND C. FISHER and MILAN D. SMITH, JR., Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Laura Graser, Portland, OR, for the defendant-appellant., Baron C. Sheldahl, Assistant United States Attorney, Portland, OR, for the plaintiff-appellee.