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                                 File Name: 08a0468n.06
                                  Filed: August 5, 2008

                                                     No. 07-1865

                                 UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                                      FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,                                        )
                                                                 )
         Plaintiff-Appellee,                                     )
                                                                 )
v.                                                               )        ON APPEAL FROM THE UNITED
                                                                 )        STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR
LARRY GAVIN,                                                     )        THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF
                                                                 )        MICHIGAN
         Defendant-Appellant                                     )

Before: SUTTON and COOK, Circuit Judges; and ROSE, District Judge*

         PER CURIAM. Defendant-Appellant Larry Gavin appeals the district court’s denial of his

motion to suppress. Gavin sought to suppress evidence obtained by a Detroit Police Officer during

a search of Gavin’s person. Gavin also seeks, for the first time on appeal, a determination that the

search turned into an illegal arrest.

         The district court, in a thorough and thoughtful opinion with which we agree, denied Gavin’s

motion to suppress because the detention of Gavin was a lawful Terry stop. See United States v.

Gavin, No. 2:06-cr-20471-RHC-RSW (E.D. Mich. Dec. 6, 2006). We adopt the district court’s

Opinion as the opinion of this panel.

         Further, because Gavin’s illegal-arrest claim was raised for the first time on appeal, this panel

         *
             The Honorable Thomas M. Rose, United States District Judge for the Southern District of Ohio, sitting by
designation .
does not consider it. See United States v. Critton, 43 F.3d 1089, 1093 (6th Cir. 1995), cert. denied,

514 U.S. 1121 (1995). However, if the claim were to be considered under plain-error review, this

panel would find that the search of Gavin was not a plainly illegal arrest. Merely requiring Gavin

to place his hands on a vehicle upon arrival of a police officer so that he could be searched for

weapons is not an arrest, particularly when the detention of Gavin was a lawful Terry stop,

particularly when this action occurred immediately upon arrival of the police officer and particularly

when Gavin voluntarily placed his hands on the vehicle and told the Detroit Police Officer that he

had a weapon in his waistband.

       We thus affirm.

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