United States v. Hernandez

BRISCOE, Circuit Judge.

This is an interlocutory appeal by the United States from the district court’s order suppressing Suleima Silva’s post-arrest statement and 28 bags of pseudoephedrine seized after a traffic stop of the car in which Silva and her husband, Pablo Hernandez, were traveling. We have jurisdiction over an interlocutory appeal from the granting of a motion to suppress pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3731. We reverse suppression of the statement and the drugs, and remand for further proceedings.

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