Legal Opinion
United States v. Soares
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided March 28, 2008No. 07-1479PublishedCited by 40 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge.
Michael Soares was the passenger in a car that the police stopped in a heavy crime area, late at night, for driving without headlights. During the course of the stop, Soares was removed from the car by the police and pat-frisked. A loaded handgun was found on his person. Soares argues that the police pat-frisked him in violation of the Fourth Amendment. Soares’s motion to suppress the hand-gun was denied by the district court, and he entered a conditional plea of guilty to being a felon in possession of a hand-gun under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1). He now appeals the…
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