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Parties Involved:
John H. Malone
Appellant
United States of America
Appellee

Document Text:

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United States Court of Appeals 

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS Tenth Circuit 

TENTH CIRCUIT 

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 

Plaintiff-Appellee, 

v. 

JOHN HOBSON MALONE, 

Defendant-Appellant. 

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ORDER AND JUDGMENT* 

r AY 2 1991 

ROBERT L. HOECKER 

Clerk 

No. 90-6274 

(D.C. No. CR-89-196-T) 

(W.D. Oklahoma) 

Before McKAY and LOGAN, Circuit Judges, and BRIMMER, District 

Judge.** 

Defendant John H. Malone pleaded guilty to the following five 

counts: conspiracy and possession with intent to distribute 

marijuana, possession with intent to use a counterfeit airman's 

certificate, operating a nonregistered aircraft, and unlawfully 

serving as an airman without a valid airman's certificate, in 

violation of 21 u.s.c. §§ 846 & 841(a)(l), 18 u.s.c. § 2, and 49 

App. u.s.c. § 1472(b)(l)(A), (C), & (E). His plea reserved the 

* This order and judgment has no precedential value and shall not 

be cited, or used by any court within the Tenth Circuit, except 

for purposes of establishing the doctrines of the law of the case, 

res judicata, or collateral estoppal. 10th Cir. R. 36.3. 

** The Honorable Clarence A. Brimmer, Chief Judge, United States 

District Court for the District of Wyoming, sitting by designation. 

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right to appeal the district court's denial of his motion to suppress evidence acquired in the search of an airplane and his 

rented vehicle in which 350 kilograms of marijuana were 

discovered. The only issue on appeal is whether the airport 

manager and his mechanic were acting on behalf of the Cushing 

Police Department when they conducted a warrantless search of the 

airplane. After examining the record, we are satisfied that the 

fact findings of the district court are not clearly erroneous and 

that its application of the law was correct. We affirm for 

substantially the reasons stated in the district court's order of 

November 16, 1989, denying suppression. 

AFFIRMED. 

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Entered for the Court 

James K. Logan 

Circuit Judge 

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