United States Ninth Circuit

In an appeal from a district court's denial of defendant's motion to suppress drug and firearm evidence against him, the order is affirmed where the district court did not err in holding that the drugs and firearm would have been uncovered during a routine inventory search of the vehicle upon impound.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/09/2009
• Published 11/09/2009

Judges

• TALLMAN, Circuit Judge:, Before:  RICHARD C. TALLMAN and MILAN D. SMITH, JR., Circuit Judges, and THOMAS M. REAVLEY, Senior Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Jeffrey C. Sullivan and Helen J. Brunner, United States Attorney for the Western District of Washington, Seattle, WA, for the plaintiff-appellee., Miriam Schwartz, Office of the Federal Public Defenders for the Western District of Washington, Tacoma, WA, for the defendant-appellant.