United States v. Singletary, No. 14-3243 (2d Cir. 2015)
Annotate this CaseThe United States appealed the district court's order suppressing drugs and a firearm seized incident to defendant's arrest. The court concluded as a matter of law that the officers’ observations of defendant walking down a public street, carrying a beer‐sized can wrapped in a brown paper bag, which object he held in a cautious manner so as to avoid spillage, are articulable, objective facts that together provided reasonable suspicion to support a brief stop to investigate whether defendant was then violating a local open‐container ordinance. Therefore, defendant's ensuing arrest and the seizure of contraband incident thereto were not tainted by an unlawful stop warranting suppression of the seized items. The court reversed the suppression order and remanded for further proceedings.
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