U.S. v. MONTEIRO

No. 05-2283.

447 F.3d 39 (2006)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellant, v. Amando B. MONTEIRO, Defendant, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided May 5, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Theodor B. Heinrich, Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Virginia M. Vander Jagt, Assistant United States Attorney, and Michael J. Sullivan, United States Attorney, were on brief, for the United States.

Kevin S. Nixon for the defendant.

Before SELYA and LIPEZ, Circuit Judges, and SAYLOR, District Judge.


LIPEZ, Circuit Judge.

Acting on Amando Monteiro's pretrial motion, the district court suppressed from evidence two guns the police obtained during a vehicle stop. The government sought our review pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 1371, which authorizes interlocutory appeals in situations such as this. We affirm.

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In an appeal from a suppression order, the district court's findings of fact govern absent a showing...

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