United States v. Leonard Bruce Hudgins

MILBURN, Circuit Judge.

Defendant appeals the denial of his motion to suppress evidence and subsequent conviction following a conditional plea of guilty to a charge of possession of a firearm during and in relation to a drug trafficking offense in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 924(e). The issue on appeal is whether the district court erred in denying defendant’s motion to suppress evidence seized during a search of defendant’s automobile after his arrest. For the reasons that follow, we affirm.

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On December 18, 1992, two officers of the Knox County Sheriffs Department were patrolling an area of…