Legal Opinion
United States v. Michael D. Sanders
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided December 21, 1999No. 99-1951PublishedCited by 66 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtBowman, Circuit J.
A South Dakota federal jury convicted Michael D. Sanders of being a felon in possession of a firearm in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) (1994). On direct appeal, Sanders aTgues that the District Court 1 committed three errors: (1) refusing to suppress evidence, including the firearm, seized from a vehicle during a traffic stop; (2) instructing the jury that the police officers’ stop and search of the car were legal; and (3) refusing to allow Sanders’s wife to testify regarding the measures she took to keep firearms away from him. We affirm.
On August 6, 1987, Sanders was a passenger in a…
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