Illegal Stop Not Purged by Assault

By Deborah Elkins
Published: February 1, 2012

Tags: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Judge G. Steven Agee, Search & Seizure

The 4th Circuit upholds suppression of a gun seized from a vehicle passenger during an illegal stop, and rejects the government’s argument that the illegality of the stop was purged when defendant resisted arrest and assaulted an officer. The district court found as a factual matter that an officer could not see the slight crack in ...

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