United States v. Holmes

OPINION

POLLAK, District Judge.

I

On April 10, 2007, prison officers searched defendant-appellant Eric Holmes, an inmate serving time at the federal correctional institute in Loretto, Pennsylvania, for possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug crime. The search revealed that Holmes was carrying his prison identification card in his pocket at the time. Secured with adhesive tape to the back of Holmes’s identification was a folded playing card, which contained the blade from a utility knife — a razor blade roughly two-and-a-half inches in length. Based on this discovery, Holmes was charged…