United States v. Jerome Hall, Hampton Arthur Porter, and Kevin Andrew Navarre

NOEL, Senior District Judge:

Defendants, Jerome Hall, Hampton Arthur Porter, and Kevin Andrew Navarre, after trial by jury, were convicted of the armed robbery of approximately $61,000.00 from the First Bank of Slidell, Louisiana, a bank then federally insured, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a), (d) and 18 U.S.C. § 2. In this appeal, defendants raise only one contention worthy of discussion; that is, whether the trial court erred in denying defendants’ motion to suppress evidence seized in the warrantless search of their car. We affirm on the grounds that the police had probable cause to…