Court Opinion

ID: 9480661
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 07:54:42.4623+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:47:49.505696
License: Public Domain

BOOCHEVER, Circuit Judge,
concurring:
I do not read the majority opinion as ruling out the admissibility of the cocaine *611found on Prieto under the inevitable discovery doctrine. If the officers had reasonable suspicion permitting a Terry stop and did not perform a pat-down search prior to Prieto’s arrest, and if the vial of cocaine would have been discovered inevitably during a pat-down search for weapons, the evidence need not be suppressed. See United States v. Andrade, 784 F.2d 1431, 1433 & n. 3 (9th Cir.1986) (where government shows by a preponderance of the evidence that cocaine discovered pursuant to an illegal search would have been discovered inevitably during a routine DEA inventory search, cocaine was properly admitted).