Legal Opinion
Gary Leland Cotton v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided January 23, 1967No. 20986_1PublishedCited by 180 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DUNIWAY, Circuit Judge.
Cotton was found guilty of violating 18 U.S.C. § 2312, by transporting a stolen motor vehicle, a 1963 Chevrolet, identification No. 31269J174220, from Columbia Falls, Montana to Las Vegas, Nevada, knowing that it was stolen. Before his trial, he made a motion to suppress certain evidence under Rule 41(e), F.R.Crim.P., which was denied.
The facts developed at the hearing of the motion, stated most favorably to the government, are these: At 1:30 A.M. on November 2, 1965 Officer Pearns of the Las Vegas Police Department was driving in an alley, with the headlights of his…
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