U.S. v. Soares, 1st Cir. Mar. 28, 2008
07-1479 U.S. v. Soares
Before Boudin, Chief Judge, Torruella, Circuit Judge, and Stahl, Senior Circuit Judge.
TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge. Michael Soares was the passenger in a car that the police stopped in a heavy crime area, late at night, for driving without headlights. During the course of the stop, Soares was removed from the car by the police and pat-frisked. A loaded hand-gun was found on his person. Soares argues that the police pat-frisked him in violation of the Fourth Amendment. Soares’s motion to suppress the hand-gun was denied by the district court, and he entered a conditional plea of guilty to being a felon in possession of a hand-gun under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1). He now appeals the district court’s denial of his motion to suppress. After careful consideration, we affirm. … U.S. v. Soares.
