United States v. Moore

DENNIS JACOBS, Chief Judge:

Chauncey Moore appeals from a judgment entered in the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut (Chatigny, J.) on a plea of possession of a firearm by a felon. The plea was conditioned on his appeal of the district court’s decision denying (in relevant part) his motion to suppress.

While fleeing arrest on a warrant, Moore tossed a gun away. During an exchange in the police station lockup after his arrest but before he received Miranda warnings, he told a law-enforcement officer where he had tossed the gun. A few hours later he confessed to other…