Legal Opinion
United States v. David Allen Merritt
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided December 28, 1982No. 80-1463PublishedCited by 137 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ALDON J. ANDERSON, District Judge.
INTRODUCTION
In the early morning hours of March 21, 1980, the defendant sat with others in a truck parked on a residential street in Denver, Colorado. While sitting there, they were confronted by police from the Denver Police Department and ordered out of the truck. At the time, the police were looking for a Texas fugitive wanted for murder. They had been informed he may be coming, and believed he might be one of the people in the truck.
After the three people got out of the truck, it was searched for weapons. The police found a .22 caliber revolver located…
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