United States v. Melvin Richard Mizell

BROWN, Chief Judge:

Appellant appeals from a conviction on a plea of nolo contendere for passing a $20.00 bill (count I) and possessing 15 counterfeit $20.00 federal reserve notes (count II), 18 U.S.C.A. § 472. The sole error asserted is that the trial court erred in denying his motion to suppress, the theory apparently being that without the evidence sought to be suppressed the government could not have made out the requisite case.

The sentencing Judge credited this theory to the extent that in response to a plea bargain struck 1 between the government and defendant on the entry of the nolo…