United States v. Lewis Franklin

EDMONDSON, Chief Judge:

This case is about flight and an investigatory stop.

Louis Franklin entered a conditional guilty plea to possession with the intent to distribute crack cocaine in violation of 21 U.S.C. 841(a)(1). On appeal, he challenges the district court’s denial of his motion to suppress, as the fruits of an unlawful seizure, his statements and drugs found on his person and drugs found at the scene of his seizure.1 We affirm.

*1300BACKGROUND

When reviewing a district court’s decision on a motion to suppress, we must view the facts in the light most favorable to the prevailing party: in this…