United States v. Burks

OPINION

Anthony Lee Burks appeals the District Court’s denial of his motion to suppress evidence of a firearm found in his possession during a traffic stop. He also appeals his sentence. We affirm.

I. Background

Because we write exclusively for the parties, we provide only a brief recitation of the facts of this case, which arose from a traffic stop of a vehicle in which Burks rode as a passenger. Two Pittsburgh police officers pulled over the car after observing that it had an inoperable centrally mounted rear stop light. A subsequent search resulted in the discovery of a firearm in Burks’…