USA v. Johnnie Gamble, No. 22-3017 (D.C. Cir. 2023)
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Appellant was charged with unlawful possession of a firearm by a person who has been convicted of a felony in violation of 18 U.S.C. Section 922(g)(1). He moved to suppress the firearm, contending that it was the fruit of an unlawful seizure. The district court denied the motion, reasoning that Appellant had not been seized until the second time he was told to show his waistband, by which time, in the court’s view, reasonable suspicion supported the seizure.
The DC Circuit vacated the denial. The court concluded that Appellant had been seized the first time the officer told Gamble to show his waistband, a statement the district court viewed to be a “demand” or “command” by the officer. The government neither contests that characterization nor attempts to show that there was reasonable suspicion for a seizure at that time. The court noted that while the government “believe that this case presents an opportunity for this Court to re-examine the wisdom of Brodie,”, a panel of the court is bound by Brodie in materially indistinguishable circumstances like those in this case.
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