USA v. John Albert Flores

Filing 920101230

Opinion

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[D O NOT PUBLISH] IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS F O R THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT FILED _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ U.S. COURT OF APPEALS N o . 09-16376 ________________________ D . C. Docket No. 09-00024-CR-A-N U N IT E D STATES OF AMERICA, ELEVENTH CIRCUIT DECEMBER 30, 2010 JOHN LEY CLERK Plaintiff-Appellee, versus JOHN ALBERT FLORES, Defendant-Appellant. ________________________ A p p eal from the United States District Court fo r the Middle District of Alabama _________________________ (D ecem b er 30, 2010) B efo re TJOFLAT, HILL and ALARCON,* Circuit Judges. P E R CURIAM: Honorable Arthur L. Alarcon, United States Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit, sitting by designation. * Appellant John Albert Flores ("Flores") entered a conditional plea of guilty to one count of knowing and willfully possessing with intent to distribute five k ilo g ram s or more of a controlled substance, in this case cocaine hydrochloride, a S ch ed u le II Controlled Substance, in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1). Pursuant to the plea agreement, Flores reserved the right to appeal the district court's denial o f his motion to suppress evidence obtained during a search of his tractor trailer p erfo rm ed after a routine traffic stop. He now appeals the denial of his motion to sup p ress. Flores filed his motion to suppress on March 17, 2009. The matter was referred to a magistrate judge, and, on April 7, 2009, an evidentiary hearing was h eld . Following that hearing, on May 14, 2009, the magistrate judge issued a R ep o rt and Recommendation recommending that the motion to suppress be denied. Flores objected to that Report and Recommendation on May 28, 2009. The district co u rt conducted a de novo review of the evidence and adopted the magistrate ju d g e's Report and Recommendation. Our review of the record of the suppression hearing convinces us that the fin d in g of the magistrate judge and the district court that Flores consented to a search of his tractor trailer is not clearly erroneous and that the court properly ap p lied the Fourth Amendment to that finding. The judgment of the district court 2 is therefore A F F IR M E D . 3

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