UNITED STATES v. WRIGHT

No. 77-1130.

565 F.2d 486 (1977)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellant, v. Robert Lee WRIGHT, Jr., Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided November 7, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alan H. Kirshen, Asst. U.S. Atty., Sioux City, Iowa (argued), Evan L. Hultman, U.S. Atty., on brief, for appellant.

Stanford J. Patterson, Waterloo, Iowa, for appellee.

Before LAY and ROSS, Circuit Judges, and MILLER, Judge.


MILLER, Judge.

Robert Lee Wright, Jr., was convicted in federal district court1 by a jury on all five counts of an indictment charging him with unlawful possession of a sawed-off shotgun. Prior to trial, he moved to suppress the testimony of all law enforcement officers and any contraband or evidence seized by them prior to, during, or subsequent to his arrest, arguing that there were no reasonable grounds for stopping him and that there...

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