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No. 12-4425
No. 12-4430
Appeals from the United States District Court for the Southern
District of West Virginia, at Huntington.
Robert C. Chambers,
District Judge. (3:11-cr-00202-2; 3:11-cr-00202-1)
Submitted:
Decided:
PER CURIAM:
Hope
Lanita
Jackson-Forsythe
(Hope)
and
Edwardo
with
one
count
of
possession
with
intent
to
distribute
U.S.C.
(2006).
On
appeal,
their
district
courts
denial
of
evidence
obtained
from
their
Appellants
joint
vehicle
and
challenge
motion
their
to
the
suppress
hotel
room.
suppress,
[w]e
review
the
district
courts
legal
Id.
210,
232
(4th
Cir.
2008)
omitted).
(internal
quotation
marks
Appellants
first
challenge
the
traffic
stop
and
with
conduct
brief
reasonable,
afoot.
the
Fourth
Amendment,
investigatory
articulable
stop
suspicion
when
that
the
officer
officer
criminal
may
has
activity
a
is
police
an
officer
to
have
Reasonable suspicion
particularized
and
objective
their
own
experience
and
specialized
to
make
(internal
quotation
marks
omitted).
With
the
above
had
reasonable
suspicion
to
believe
that
drug
Appellants ignore
exception,
[i]f
.
a
for
car
automobile
is
readily
searches.
mobile
and
Under
this
probable
cause
permits
police
to
search
the
vehicle
without
more.
940
(1996)
(citation
omitted)).
Moreover,
it
is
well
v.
Branch,
537
F.3d
328,
340
n.2
(4th
United
Cir.
2008)
positively
of
alerted
to
the
presence
drugs
in
the
vehicle,
police have probable cause, they may search every part of the
vehicle and its contents that may conceal the object of the
search.) (quoting United States v. Ross, 456 U.S. 798, 825
(1982) (citation omitted)).
Appellants
next
contend
that
the
police
violated
search.
arrest
and
custody)
that
the
police
should
know
are
Rhode
Island
(footnote omitted).
v.
Innis,
446
U.S.
291,
301
(1980)
response.
Thus,
we
conclude
that
Hopes
room
and
Appellants
the
challenge
seizure
of
the
search
evidence
found
of
their
therein.
Appellants second
Fourth
Amendmentsubject
only
to
few
404
F.3d
263,
275
(4th
Cir.
6
2005)
specifically
United States v.
(quoting
Mincey
v.
Arizona,
437
U.S.
385,
390
(1978)).
The
independent
source
doctrine
allows
admission
of
The inevitable
evidence
[i]f
the
by
lawful
means.
Id.
at
444.
Even
if
police
found
that
the
evidence
inevitably
would
have
been
is meritless.
Accordingly, we affirm the district courts judgments.
We
dispense
contentions
with
are
oral
argument
adequately
because
presented
in
the
facts
and
the
materials
legal
before
this court and argument would not aid the decisional process.
AFFIRMED
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