Legal Opinion
United States v. Rufus A. Rias
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided December 4, 1975No. 75-1473PublishedCited by 42 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GEWIN, Circuit Judge:
Defendant Rufus A. Rias appeals from his judgment of conviction for possession of stolen mail in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1708. We reverse.
On September 5, 1974 at approximately one o’clock in the afternoon, Officer Michael Richberg of the Miami Public Safety Department was observing traffic from a marked car when he noticed the defendant and a passenger, both black males, drive past in a black Chevrolet. Richberg knew that two black males in a black or blue Chevrolet were suspects in a series of Farm Store robberies, the most recent of which, so far as he knew, had…
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