United States v. Sullivan

Reversed and remanded by pubhshed opinion. Judge NIEMEYER wrote the opinion, in which Chief Judge WILSON and Judge JONES joined.

OPINION

NIEMEYER, Circuit Judge:

We are presented with the question of whether the defendant’s confession, made following a routine traffic stop, and a gun subsequently seized from the defendant’s automobile should be suppressed under both the Fourth and Fifth Amendments. The district court granted the defendant’s motion to suppress, holding that when the defendant was “subjected ... ■ to six repeated, insistent questions obviously designed to invite incrimination,” he…