Court Opinion

ID: 9456630
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 19:58:09.981131+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:35:02.279380
License: Public Domain

FAHY, Senior Circuit Judge
(concurring) :
I agree with Judge Robinson that the questioned evidence should have been suppressed and the conviction for that reason reversed without reaching appellant’s other contentions.
My reason for concluding that the evidence should have been suppressed is that in my opinion the arrest of appellant for robbery was unlawful, as the trial judge found, and the seizure of the purse was incidental to that arrest and therefore the contents of the purse were inadmissible in evidence as the fruit of an unlawful arrest. When the purse was found to contain narcotics and appellant was then arrested again, this time for narcotics violations, the unlawfulness of the seizure was not remedied.
I do not find it necessary to go beyond the foregoing.