LYON

v.

UNITED STATES

Citator

Cited By

• United States v. Whitfield, 629 F.2d 136 (D.C. Cir. 1980)
  …search occurred. Mathis did direct Ware to stop the car for a “spot check.” Regardless of whether Mathis’s discoveries that day may be imputed to Ware, see United States v. Hawkins, 595 F. 2d 751, 752 n.2 (D.C.Cir. 1978) (per curiam), cert. denied, 441 U.S. 910, 99 S.Ct. 2005, 60 L.Ed.2d 380 (1979), Ware already had sufficient information from his previous discussions with Mathis to give him probable cause to believe the car contained evidence and contraband. . To say that the expectation of privacy in an…

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• United States v. Johnson, 968 F.2d 768 (8th Cir. 1992)
  …stated that prosecutors are not “at liberty to substitute emotion for evidence by equating, directly or by innuendo, a verdict of guilty to a blow against the drug problem.” United States v. Hawkins, 595 F. 2d 751, 754 (D.C.Cir.1978), cert. denied, 441 U.S. 910, 99 S.Ct. 2005, 60 L.Ed.2d 380 (1979). Clearly, the drug problem is a matter of great concern in this country today. This court is sympathetic to prosecutors’ vigorous efforts to prosecute participants in the drug trade. However, we are in agreeme…