Legal Opinion
United States v. Wright
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided January 7, 2008No. 07-1334PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MURPHY, Circuit Judge.
Appellant Thomas Neal Wright appeals the district court’s 1 denial of his motion to suppress 24.7 kilograms of cocaine and incriminating statements he made in the course of a traffic stop. We affirm.
On June 2, 2005 Wright was driving a pickup eastbound on Interstate 80 in Hamilton County, Nebraska when he noticed signs indicating that a state patrol checkpoint with a drug dog was located past the next freeway exit. The signs were placed approximately 600 feet west of the Phillips interchange which has an eastbound exit ramp. The exit ramp accesses County Road B which…
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