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UNITED STATES v. McCLINNHAN

No. 80-1686.

660 F.2d 500 (1981)

UNITED STATES of America v. Harvey R. McCLINNHAN, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided July 9, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jay E. Shanklin, Washington, D. C. (appointed by this Court), for appellant.

Charles F. C. Ruff, U. S. Atty., Washington, D. C., with whom Darryl W. Jackson, John A. Terry and H. Lowell Brown, Asst. U. S. Attys., Washington, D. C., were on the brief for appellee.

Before McGOWAN and WALD, Circuit Judges, and MARKEY, Chief Judge, United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals.

Opinion for the Court filed by McGOWAN, Circuit Judge.

McGOWAN, Circuit Judge:

Appellant Harvey McClinnhan challenges the District Court's denial of a pretrial motion to suppress evidence garnered in a warrantless search of his briefcase that occurred during an investigative stop. Although appellant raises nonfrivolous Fourth Amendment arguments for the invalidity of the stop and the accompanying search, we are persuaded that both were reasonable in the particular...

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