United States v. Winston

TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge.

This is an interlocutory appeal by the government under the provisions of 18 U.S.C. § 3731 from an order of the district court suppressing evidence obtained pursuant to a search warrant. For the reasons stated hereinafter, we reverse. The district court concluded that the search warrant was based on information that was illegally obtained by government agents incident to defendant Charles Winston’s (“Winston”) arrest. Specifically, the court found that the observation by the arresting officers of a certain amount of cash in Winston’s nightstand, as well as of a safe…