United States DC Circuit

Conviction based on guilty plea to possessing with intent to distribute marijuana is affirmed over defendant's claims that: 1) the district court erred in denying a motion to suppress evidence seized from his vehicle following his arrest for driving without a permit since both the traffic stop and the search of his vehicle violated the Fourth Amendment; and 2) his guilty plea lacked a sufficient factual basis.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/15/2007
• Decided 08/10/2007
• Published 08/10/2007

Judges

• Before:  GINSBURG, Chief Judge, and HENDERSON and ROGERS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States DC Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• A.J. Kramer, Federal Public Defender, argued the cause for the appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Mary B. McCord, Attorney, argued the cause for the appellee.  Jeffrey A. Taylor, United States Attorney, and Roy W. McLeese III, Lisa H. Schertler and John P. Gidez, Assistant United States Attorneys, were on brief.