U.S. v. COLON

No. 91-5444.

975 F.2d 128 (1992)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Edwin Manuel COLON, a/k/a Edwin Melendez Colon, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided September 15, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William Graham Otis, Sr. Litigation Counsel, Office of the U.S. Atty., Alexandria, Va., argued (Richard Cullen, U.S. Atty., on brief), for plaintiff-appellant.

Lisa Bondareff Kemler, Moffitt, Zwerling & Kemler, P.C., Alexandria, Va., argued (William B. Moffitt, John Kenneth Zwerling, on brief), for defendant-appellee.

Before SPROUSE and HAMILTON, Circuit Judges, and TILLEY, United States District Judge for the Middle District of North Carolina, sitting by designation.


OPINION

SPROUSE, Circuit Judge:

The United States appeals the ruling of the district court suppressing evidence which it characterizes as critical to its prosecution of Edwin Manuel Colon.1 The sole issue on appeal is whether the district court abused its discretion when it denied the government's motion for a brief continuance to allow it to locate its key witness. We reverse.

Colon was indicted in the United States...

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