United States v. Griffith

BYE, Circuit Judge.

Maurice Kendall Griffith appeals the district court’s 1 denial of his motion to suppress a firearm seized during the search of a vehicle in which he was a passenger, and statements he made to police identifying himself and acknowledging ownership of the firearm. We affirm.

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On September 1, 2005, at approximately 8:30 p.m., Columbia Missouri police observed Griffith and Vickie Holmes-Belcher sitting in a car parked in the parking lot of a housing development owned by the Columbia Public Housing Authority. Bel-cher, the owner of the vehicle, was in the driver’s seat and…