Legal Opinion
United States v. Gary D. Williams
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided March 5, 2004No. 03-2456PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BEAM, Circuit Judge.
Defendant Gary D. Williams appeals the district court’s 1 denial of his motion to suppress 593 pounds of marijuana found in his vehicle. We affirm.
I. BACKGROUND
Williams was driving a tractor-trailer eastbound on Interstate 44 in Missouri when he encountered signs warning that a drug checkpoint was ahead. The signs were placed just before the Sugar Tree exit in Phelps County. Williams took this exit, failed to stop at the stop sign at the end of the exit ramp, rolled through the intersection and stopped on the edge of the adjacent on-ramp. A Phelps County Sheriffs Deputy…
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