United States v. Franklin Neil Brady

SNEED, Circuit Judge:

Appellant claims that the district court ought to have suppressed certain statements he made to a police officer and the physical evidence to which the statements led. We disagree. Therefore, we affirm appellant’s conviction for possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute, 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1).

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FACTS AND PROCEEDINGS BELOW

About 6:00 p.m. on May 29, 1986, two policemen were called to investigate a report of a man beating a woman. The first officer to arrive on the scene, Officer Triv-iz, talked to a girl seated in the passenger seat of a parked car. She…