United States v. Walter Richard, Lesburn Lloyd Da Costa, and Headley Weir

JERRE S. WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge:

The government brings this interlocutory appeal of the district court’s pretrial order to suppress evidence discovered in two motel rooms. The district court found that customs agents had violated the Fourth Amendment when they made a warrantless entry and search of a room at the Superdome Motor Inn in New Orleans, Louisiana. The district court also concluded that any consent given to search a room at the nearby Economy Motor Lodge was not voluntary. As a result, the district court suppressed most of the evidence discovered during the two searches. After…