Thomas v. United States

TERRY, Associate Judge:

Appellant Thomas was convicted of unlawful possession of a pistol after conviction of a felony1 and bail jumping.2 His only contention on this appeal is that the trial court erred in denying his motion to suppress the pistol, which was seized from the trunk of a car he was driving. We hold that the search of the trunk was based on probable cause, and accordingly we affirm the judgment of conviction.

I

In July 1984 Sergeant Francis L. Hinton, a sixteen-year veteran of the Metropolitan Police, was an automobile theft investigator assigned to the Third District. He testified…