United States v. Kenneth Paul Johnson
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
1Opinion of the Court
EUGENE A. WRIGHT, Circuit Judge:
A jury found appellant guilty of conspiring to import heroin and conspiring to possess it with intent to distribute. He argues on appeal that the trial judge erred in admitting in evidence a quantity of heroin and an altered automobile gasoline tank, both of which were seized in warrantless searches. We affirm.
FACTS:
On December 15, 1975, agents of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) arrested appellant and a co-conspirator, Bowen, as they sat in a 1975 Cadillac in a parking lot in Arizona. Bowen had been driving the Cadillac and Johnson had been driving a…
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2Cases cited26 opinions
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- South Dakota v. OppermanSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
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