USCA1 Opinion
[NOT FOR PUBLICATION]
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FIRST CIRCUIT
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No. 97-1855
UNITED STATES,
Appellee,
v.
DANIEL LEWIS,
Defendant, Appellant.
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APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF RHODE ISLAND
[Hon. Francis J. Boyle, Senior U.S. District Judge] __________________________
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Before
Boudin, Stahl and Lynch,
Circuit Judges. ______________
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James L. Sultan, Charles W. Rankin and Rankin & Sultan on brief ________________ __________________ ________________
for appellant.
Sheldon Whitehouse, United States Attorney, Margaret E. Curran __________________ ___________________
and Gerard B. Sullivan, Assistant United States Attorneys, on brief ___________________
for appellee.
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January 26, 1998
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Per Curiam. Upon careful review of the briefs and __________
record, we conclude that the pat-frisk of defendant was a
permissible search and that district court correctly denied
suppression of the evidence discovered during that search.
We reach this conclusion essentially for the reasons
expressed by the district court in its order dated September
9, 1996. We thus reject defendant's appellate contentions
that the officers lacked a reasonable suspicion grounded in
specific and articulable facts to justify the search and that
the officer conducting the search personally did not possess
such a reasonable suspicion.
Affirmed. See 1st Cir. Loc. R. 27.1. ________ ___
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