United States v. Windom

HOLMES, Circuit Judge.

Defendant-Appellant Samuel Terraye Windom entered a conditional guilty plea to one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g). Mr. Windom now appeals from the district court’s denial of his motion to suppress the firearm, arguing that officers obtained the firearm as part of an unconstitutional seizure. More specifically, Mr. Windom takes the position that officers used unreasonable “high-risk” traffic stop procedures to investigate a “completed misdemeanor”—that is, Mr. Windom’s flashing of a firearm in public—and submits that…