Legal Opinion
United States v. Leffall
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided April 23, 1996No. 95-2074PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LOGAN, Circuit Judge.
The single issue in this appeal is whether a police officer acting as a witness while an airline employee opens a package is sufficient to make the employee an instrument of the government requiring suppression of the evidence uncovered by the search. This is necessarily a fact-specific inquiry; but deciding the appeal also requires us to give more specific content to the applicable test stated in our prior cases.
Defendant Daniele M. Leffall entered a conditional guilty plea to possession of counterfeit securities, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 513(a), reserving the right…
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