United States v. Villanueva

BAILEY ALDRICH, Senior Circuit Judge.

Defendant Jose Villanueva pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm after having been convicted of a felony, 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), but subject to the right to appeal the propriety of the Terry type stop and search that had discovered the gun. 1 Fed.R.Crim.P. 11(a)(2). In denying the motion to suppress, the district court stated that it believed the testimony of the government witness, Anderson, and that it took into account the nature of the area and the history of volatile conduct in that particular station and concluded that the temporary stop and pat…