United States v. Brodie, No. 11-3029 (D.C. Cir. 2014)
Annotate this CaseDefendant pled guilty to unlawful possession of a firearm. On appeal, defendant challenged the district court's motion to suppress evidence. While waiting to execute a search warrant at the home of an arrested murder suspect, police saw defendant leave the house. Police pulled up to defendant and ordered him to put his hands on a nearby car, defendant obeyed and then fled a few seconds later, discarding guns and drugs. The court concluded that a seizure occurred where defendant's action of putting his hands on the car when told to do so by the police constituted full compliance. The court concluded that defendant's seizure was unreasonable and in violation of the Fourth Amendment where a Summers-Bailey stop was inapplicable and where the government did not attempt to justify the stop as a Terry stop. Further, the government had not met its burden to show attenuation between the illegal seizure and the discovery of the guns and drugs. Accordingly, the court reversed and remanded for further proceedings.
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