United States v. Michael Ray Haley William Harry Riehl

K. K. HALL, Circuit Judge:

The United States appeals from a district court order suppressing the introduction into evidence of marijuana which state police officers and a Federal Drug Enforcement agent seized from the defendants’ automobile. Suppression was ordered because the officers failed to obtain a search warrant from a state court of record as required by Rule 41 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure. We conclude that compliance with Rule 41 was unnecessary because the circumstances justified a war-rantless search, and therefore reverse the suppression order and remand the case for…