United States v. Maurice Whitfield, Jr.

Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge RANDOLPH.

RANDOLPH, Circuit Judge:

A jury convicted Maurice Whitfield, Jr. of stealing $43,000 from a Brinks, Inc., storage facility in the District of Columbia, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 659. The evidence left no doubt about his guilt. On appeal, Whitfield argues that the district court should have excluded the cash recovered during a warrantless search of his room to which his mother had consented.

At the time of his crime Whitfield was 29 years old. For several weeks he had been working as a janitor for a company that cleaned the Brinks facility.…