United States Ninth Circuit

In the government's appeal from suppression of evidence found inside closed containers -- themselves inside a motor vehicle stopped for a traffic violation -- after the driver was handcuffed and securely placed in the rear of the arresting officer's patrol car, the order is affirmed where the officer's impoundment of defendant's vehicle violated Washington Law, and, therefore, did not qualify as a valid inventory search in accordance with the Fourth Amendment.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/12/2010
• Published 08/12/2010

Judges

• Michael Daly Hawkins

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Aine Ahmed, Matthew Campbell