United States v. Gerard Fredrick Lisk, Jr.

STEVENS, Circuit Judge.

The question is whether a firearm seized during an illegal search of a bailee’s automobile is admissible in support of a charge that the bailor illegally possessed the firearm five days before it was seized. The district court granted defendant’s motion to suppress; we reverse.

The essential facts are stipulated. The indictment charged that defendant possessed an explosive bomb on September 25, 1972.1 On that date the bomb was placed in the trunk of an automobile owned by one Michael Hunt; defendant told Hunt to hold the bomb until defendant asked for its return.…