Legal Opinion
United States v. Andrade
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided August 26, 1996No. 95-1883PublishedCited by 57 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LYNCH, Circuit Judge.
Louis Andrade was convicted of possessing cocaine base with intent to distribute. He was sentenced to 168 months in prison. He appeals from both his conviction and his sentence.
Andrade’s main argument is that the evidence seized when the car in which he was riding was stopped by officers from the Boston Anti-Gang Violence Unit should have been suppressed. He says that the ostensible reason for the stop, a traffic violation, was only a pretext to search the car in hope of proving more serious charges. For these charges, he says, there then existed no probable cause or…
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