U.S. v. Rodgers, No. 10-30254 (9th Cir.) (656 F.3d 1023) (September 7, 2011) (Judge M. Margaret McKeown)
Loaded on Sept. 19, 2011
published in Punch and Jurists
September 19, 2011
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Probable Cause.
In this automobile search case, a divided panel from the Ninth Circuit reversed a district court’s refusal to grant a motion to suppress evidence of a gun and drugs found in the car on the grounds that the district court failed to make “an important distinction between probable cause …
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