United States v. Patrick James, No. 22-1222 (8th Cir. 2022)
Annotate this CaseDefendant entered a conditional guilty plea to being a felon in possession of a firearm, preserving his right to appeal the district court's denial of his motion to suppress. The Eighth Circuit affirmed Defendant's conviction, finding that the traffic stop that led to the discovery of the challenged evidence was supported by reasonable suspicion. The police officer's decision to pull Defendant over after learning that he was driving a vehicle that had been reported stolen was sufficient to at least give rise to reasonable suspicion.
Court Description: [Loken, Author, with Benton and Kobes, Circuit Judges] Criminal case - Criminal law. The particularized, objective facts known to the police officer at the time he stopped defendant gave him reasonable suspicion that the driver of the car was operating a stolen vehicle, and the stop did not violate defendant's Fourth Amendment rights.
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