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United States v. Edward Ellsworth Wilson
392 F.2d 979
| 9th Cir. | 1968
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Lead Opinion

PER CURIAM:

This is an appeal, by the government from an order made by the district court under Rule 41(e) and 57(b), Fed.R.Crim.P., after a hearing which suppressed certain physical evidence, i. e., marijuana. Appellee had been indicted for a violation of 21 U.S.C. § 176a, and had pleaded not guilty. Jurisdiction here rests on 18 U.S.C. § 1404 and 28 U.S.C. § 1294.

An appeal from another portion of the district court order was neither waived nor urged by the government, on oral argument. We consider it moot.

On the authority of Corngold v. United States, 367 F.2d 1 (9th Cir. 1966), the order of suppression is affirmed.






Dissenting Opinion

BARNES, Circuit Judge

(dissenting).

I respectfully dissent for the following reasons:

(a) Those set forth in my dissent in Corngold v. United States, 367 F.2d 1 (9th Cir. 1966);

(b) the facts herein show this was not a search by federal officers, but one undertaken and initiated solely by air line employees, in which government agents later participated to a limited, unsubstantial, and minor, degree. I conclude it was in truth a private search, and in no sense a government search;

(c) the facts in this case more closely resemble those held controlling in Gold v. United States, 378 F.2d 588 (9th Cir. 1967), than they do those found in Corngold v. United States, supra.

Case Details

Case Name: United States v. Edward Ellsworth Wilson
Court Name: Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Date Published: May 2, 1968
Citation: 392 F.2d 979
Docket Number: 22221_1
Court Abbreviation: 9th Cir.
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