U.S. v. TOUSSAINT

No. 15-30748.

838 F.3d 503 (2016)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Tosh TOUSSAINT, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Filed September 22, 2016.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kevin G. Boitmann , Diane Hollenshead Copes, Esq. , Duane A. Evans , Myles Drew Ranier , Jeffrey Keith Sandman , Julious Collin Sims, Esq. , Assistant U.S. Attorneys, U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Louisiana, New Orleans, LA, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Robert Stephen Toale, Esq. , Gretna, LA, for Defendant-Appellee.

Before KING, SMITH, and COSTA, Circuit Judges.


The United States appeals an order suppressing evidence seized in a traffic stop. Although the government maintained that the exigent-circumstances exception to the Fourth Amendment's warrant requirement validated the stop, the district court held that the exigency had dissipated by the time the officers made the stop...

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