United States v. Peter Gradowski

We affirm the appellant’s conviction on seven counts of an indictment relating to possession of stolen goods and mail fraud. 18 U.S.C. §§ 2113(c), 1341-1342.

Appellant’s principal ground for appeal is based on the trial court’s denial of his motion to suppress documents linking him with the crimes of which he was convicted, which were seized in a warrantless search of his automobile trunk. The search was found by the trial court to have been made with the consent of the Hammers, people at whose house appellant had left his car, to whom he had given the keys, and who — rather than being under…