Legal Opinion
United States v. Ford
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided September 20, 2017No. 16-3732PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ROVNER, Circuit Judge.
Michael Ford entered a conditional guilty plea to possessing a firearm as a felon, 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), preserving for this direct appeal his challenge to the denial of a motion to suppress evidence. We uphold the district court’s ruling.
Ford and Cameron Hoefle were passengers in a car driven by Tyler Mincks around 2:00 a.m. on December 4, 2015. Mincks was stopped in Moline, Illinois, for a traffic violation, and police officers noticed two open beer bottles. The officers asked Mincks, Ford, and Hoefle to exit the car, and while frisking Ford they found a loaded,…
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