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By Shari Allison

A variety of decisions from other circuits:US v. Vinton, 2010 WL 392347 (C.A. D.C. 2/5/10): The D.C. Circuit held that, under Arizona v. Gant, 129 S.Ct. 1710 (2009), a US Park Police officer who had stopped the defendant for traffic violations and then saw an unlawfully possessed knife in the car could search the vehicle and pry open a locked briefcase to search for additional weapons even though the driver was handcuffed. US v. Jules, 2010 WL 348044 (11th Cir. 2/2/10): Principles of fundamental fairness require that a district court intending to rely on new information when considering a § 3582(c)(2) motion to reduce sentence must give the parties notice and an opportunity to contest the information. In this case, the court received a report from the probation office indicating that, while in prison, the defendant had been disciplined for drug and other violations...continue to full post

Full post as published by Tenth Circuit Blog on February 25, 2010 (boomark / email).