United States v. James Harold Brown, Oscar Cornelius Goodman, and Clifford Odell Hollis, Jr.

This is a direct appeal from a judgment of the District Court for the Middle District of Georgia finding Brown, Goodman and Hollis guilty of bank robbery. The principal question concerns the admissibility of certain evidence seized from an automobile in which the defendants had been riding prior to their arrest. The search was conducted without a warrant after the defendants had been arrested and placed in custody in a nearby police vehicle. Although we once might have had some question concerning the admissibility of evidence obtained in such a manner, the Supreme Court’s most recent opinion…