Legal Opinion
United States v. Jeffery Todd Marshall and Louis James Sterrenberg
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided January 2, 1980No. 78-5664PublishedCited by 40 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JAMES C. HILL, Circuit Judge:
Appellants Marshall and Sterrenberg were each convicted of one count of possession of marijuana with intent to distribute in violation of 21 U.S.C.A. § 841(a)(1). At this stage of the appeal we need only decide whether the district judge erred in denying defendants’ motion to suppress evidence after the magistrate had conducted a suppression hearing and recommended granting defendants’ motion, and when the district judge neither conducted a hearing on the motion nor consulted the transcript of the magistrate’s hearing before he ruled.
Appellants were aboard the…
2Cases cited7 opinions
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- United States v. Gerald Randall Whitaker and Edward Joseph FitzpatrickCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1979
- United States v. Celio Castro and Ralph Alfonso, United States of America v. Albert Greene, Jr.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1979
- United States v. Herman RaddatzCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1979
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3Cited by40 opinions
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