United States v. David Lee Green

MANION, Circuit Judge.

David Green was convicted of possession of crack cocaine with intent to distribute, and possession of a firearm by a felon. Green appeals, asserting that the district court erred in denying his motion to suppress evidence of these crimes obtained during an automobile search, and that it erred in sentencing him. While we conclude that Green was illegally stopped, the taint from that illegal seizure dissipated prior to the automobile search because of intervening circumstances, namely the arrest of the car’s other occupant, David’s brother Avery Green, on an outstanding…