Legal Opinion
United States v. Mary Jane Jenkins, Evan Peter Pigman, Jo Ann Rochelli, David Carl Stubbs, Rickie Herbert Ranney, and Larry Wayne Malady
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided April 10, 1995No. 93-2056PublishedCited by 72 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DUHÉ, Circuit Judge:
The government appeals from the grant of Appellees’ 1 motions to suppress evidence. For the reasons below, we find that the district court’s holding was based on a misapprehension of the applicable law, and therefore we reverse, render and remand.
I. PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND
In April 1991, a grand jury for the Southern District of Texas indicted Appellees for racketeering and interstate shipment of obscene materials via common carrier. Appel-lees moved to suppress evidence obtained from five searches of bookstores and businesses owned or controlled by Jenkins in Alabama,…
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