U.S. v. JOHNSON

No. 13-15583.

777 F.3d 1270 (2015)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Shawnton Deon JOHNSON, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

February 2, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jonathan Colan , Matthew John Langley , Assistant U.S. Attorney, Kathleen Mary Salyer , Wifredo A. Ferrer , Michael J. Garofola , Alison Whitney Lehr , Elina A. Rubin-Smith , Assistant U.S. Attorney, John C. Shipley , Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney's Office, Miami, FL, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Michael Caruso , Federal Public Defender, Tracy Michele Dreispul , Federal Public Defender's Office, Miami, FL, for Defendant-Appellant.

Before WILLIAM PRYOR and JORDAN, Circuit Judges, and JONES, District Judge.


This appeal requires us to decide whether to apply the inevitable discovery exception to the exclusionary rule when a police officer illegally discovers evidence that he would have discovered in a later inventory search. When a police officer stopped a truck driven by Shawnton Johnson, the officer checked the license...

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