Legal Opinion
United States v. Leslie Carter
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided March 18, 1994No. 93-5102PublishedCited by 66 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DAVID A. NELSON, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from a conviction in a drug case. The defendant, a passenger in a motor vehicle that was found to contain several hundred pounds of marijuana, moved to suppress the marijuana evidence on the ground that the police had violated his Fourth Amendment rights by stopping the vehicle on a pretext and searching it without permission. The trial court denied the motion for want of standing, and a jury found the defendant guilty on possession and aiding-and-abetting charges. See 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1) and 18 U.S:C. § 2.
The defendant makes three arguments…
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