Legal Opinion
United States v. Cordell G. Sawyer
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 18, 2000No. 99-3687PublishedCited by 90 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge.
Cordell G. Sawyer, who stands charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm, successfully argued to the district court that bullets found on his person when he was arrested (which match the bullets in the gun he is alleged to have possessed) should be suppressed as the product of an illegal search. The government takes the opposite view and has filed this interlocutory appeal challenging the district court’s ruling. Because we conclude that the bullets found on Sawyer were not the product of an illegal search, we reverse.
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